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That's exactly what I mean. If you needed to zoom in to be able to see the text and it didn't reflow when the text goes off the screen, you would have to pan back and forth to read. I won't do that.
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The main problem is that the rights holders' (and the lessees of those rights) strategies do not recognise what customers are and that "alternative providers" should be treated as "competition", albeit unwelcome "competition". They regard customers as consumers easily tamed by threat, rather like pets who get fed when and where their master says, and if tempted to scavenge free food from an easier source, gets threatened with a whipping. The competitive strategy should be to beat the "competition" in the market of customers rather than by complicating the enjoyment of their material by compliant to rules consumers through restrictions on how and when the material is consumed. An easy example is that of the ordinary not too computer savvy person buying ebooks. It is in fact, for them, far less complicated with less hoops to jump through, and far, far cheaper to "buy for free" an ebook from direct download elsewhere or via torrent file providers than it is to obtain it from an ebook retailer. That those in the supply chain to the customer do not change their marketing model to a more consumer sympathetic one (as music has been slowly doing) is beyond understanding. But I suppose that the completely blinkered acceptance by many of the public (often seen in such threads as this), to what is really an abuse of their ignorance of competitive marketing and their own place as customers, allows providers to implement a lazy and blunt, and ultimately ineffective marketing strategy based on protectionism and the threat of the customer getting a whipping if they stray outside of the tight rules of use tried to be imposed by providers. I will sit back and watch the bleating from the protectionism and whip the "thieves" is the only way, with some amusement. Last edited by AnotherCat; 03-25-2017 at 05:26 PM. |
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03-25-2017, 05:37 PM | #19 |
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Fair enough. Which Android browsers do that, as a matter of interest? It's something I don't recall ever having encountered.
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In addition, Amazon has taken back ebooks that people have "bought", so this shows that Amazon doesn't sell very many ebooks at all. They do rent a lot of books, and then put restrictions on them so that you can''t use them the way you would use a purchased (or even rented) physical book. Yeah, they've been successful, and they are likely to continue to be because they now have the self-published sources pretty much locked up, but then many "successful" things were later replaced by things much better for consumers. Like Apple trying to "sell" DRM-laden music being replaced by companies that are up-front about the fact that it is a rental (Pandora, etc.). All-you-can-eat audio streaming was one of the things that forced Apple to drop DRM from music sales. If Kindle Unlimited was actually that (borrow any book Amazon sells), then Amazon would discover that nobody would "buy" ebooks, because the extra selection and the truth (it's a rental) are something that people really want. Last edited by nabsltd; 03-25-2017 at 06:24 PM. |
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First, apart from the other restrictions on the use of the material there is the control of the non-computer savvy customers usage by having to buy Amazon's own Kindle, and furthermore they put barriers against use of that for media from other media suppliers. Perhaps you would similarly hold the view that Sony should only allow the movies they hold rights to be only played on Sony TVs, assuming Sony provided a direct supply channel of some sort to those, and that Sony TVs should not play material from other suppliers? Second, your last sentence demonstrates to me a closed and rude mind; and also a complete lack of understanding of the competitive marketing strategy environment. You seem to dismiss people who are potential customers of the "mainstream suppliers" and could be made customers if approached with effective marketing as just being "scum". How much crasser and ruder could you be about potential customers? I am sorry but I can only assume that one who seems to have such a poor opinion of fellow beings by calling them as "scum" is not worth conversing with. Last edited by AnotherCat; 03-25-2017 at 06:25 PM. |
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Opera and UC browsers do. Dolphin used to do it well, but only does it sometimes now. Chrome used to and got rid of it a few years back. Boat Browser used to until Chrome got rid of it. Any browser using chromium lost text reflow when it was removed from chromium.
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I would note that Sony do indeed appear to believe that, if I buy a PlayStation game, it's reasonable that I can only play it on a Sony PlayStation. All this, though, seems somewhat irrelevant to what we're debating here, which is an encryption standard for video streaming on HTML5 - an open standard which anyone will be free to implement, and which does not restrict the viewer to any choice of hardware or software. Quote:
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Unfortunately, it's hard to completely avoid bad operators on the Internet; it's kind of like complaining about using fossil fuels...while taking the bus to work. But it's important to at least be aware of the people hiding behind the curtains and do what you can to steer clear of them. The power they have over not just software but the Internet is amazing. |
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I would suggest that you perhaps need to change your apparently emotive approach and refrain from name calling of people who could become your customers first, that would help in creating an environment in which you can make sound decisions. People pay me for this stuff and here I am giving it away to you free while it is apparent that you have a fixed mindset regarding the problem . I'm going fishing instead (real fish that is, not phish ). |
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For the majority of sites I use Firefox. In the menu for zoom there is checkbox for "zoom text only". When I visit the page and the text is too small, I simply press Ctrl and use mouse scroll wheel to zoom up or down. VERY convenient. I do the vast majority of browsing on Firefox. For Chrome the setting is more involved, see http://www.thundercloud.net/infoave/...he-whole-page/ There are also some plugins to accomplish that. Opera http://ask.brothersoft.com/how-do-yo...er-248399.html Yes, many sites behave in a funny way if you use text only zoom. This is one of reasons I did not like the old Verge.com layout. For example a thin menu at the top of the page (a feature I strongly dislike) is much wider suddenly, because it not only uses much bigger font, it now has two lines. Fortunately you can enable Yesscript on many pages and get rid of many advanced features, like animated shit or floating menus that just distract. |
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