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Concerns about the implementation only came up after years of pushback forced google ton reconsider.
Changing your user agent won't help. No half decent web developer has cared about since the 2000s.
This is why I have a Boox Android eInk tablet, although I only use it with burner accounts. They run Ancient versions of Android.
AVIF is only better when quality is less important than saving bandwidth. AVIF is also significantly less capable.
A better format would have made us geeks a lot happier, but the average user just wants things to work the way they always have.
I don't know if this has ever been tested in court.
It's really cool that it can compile itself to a bunch of different languages, but the API isn't consistent enough for complex applications to work with all of its backends.
From I remember, back int the 90's, "copy protection", was the common term in use.
In most cases the compression ratio will be low enough that the video will be perceptually lossless.