The era of cheap streaming is officially over

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Well, this time they have Google and Microsoft on big brother duty to make sure you don't get crazy ideas. And I'm not seeing enough people jumping away from Chrome and Windows to stop it.

I'm on Windows and it's never hindered me when I needed to go download something that would make a studio exec cry. Granted, I use Firefox, but I'm not sure what Chrome would do differently - it's just a matter of clicking links that get sent off to qBittorrent to handle. What "big brothering" do they do?

Google is implementing a new scheme that verifies your browser (correct DRM, etc.) and sites won’t allow access without it.

Basically you have to have Chrome and without extensions they don’t like.

I'm preeeeetty sure that the Pirate Bay isn't going to implement that scheme.

But so far google and microsoft are incompetent big brothers, to the point that most people will find free streaming sites just by searching "free streaming epx of show". Now we are not talking good streaming, or even safe but if you want an example just look at any place with poor users (like a school or library).

What exactly are you talking about? Google and Microsoft have literally nothing to do with any of this.