But concerns remain over whether the requirement can be enforced in practice, as watermark-removal applications remain widely available.

It seems like the law is more downscoped than the title implies:

> The rules apply only to businesses, not individual users.

I can't think of a business that would be incentivized to dewatermark videos - they just wouldn't watermark them in the first place

Looks like the VNeID app could soon be used for an Orwell-meets-Black-Mirrol state security tool.

my digital garden : https://jndjs.dev

hello Felix, that page is 404 here at the moment :(

The paid browser market essentially collapsed after Microsoft bundled IE with Windows for free. For example Netscape was $49. Microsoft famously attacked this with "Why waste $50 for Netscape?! IE is free!"

This doesn't make browsers today really 'free' (same like search engines aren't really 'free'). Browsers are incredibly complex to make and maintain. And the customers paying all these cost are the advertisers/third parties, not the users using them (entire reason for Kagi's existance is to create an option where user is also the customer).

Being able to pay for the most intimate piece of software you have on your computer makes a lot of sense.

As an example, Opera was payware for the first ten years of its existence. I remember trying out a demo of it included on a CD decades ago!

You're absolutely right ! I had forgotten that.

"not available in your country" (I'm in Belgium)

you are not alone

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freshly subscribed - had a peek in the archives, noticed a link to curpress.com that appears to be offline.