Such a weird writing format just to work around the ads. Just awful.
Wait, you don’t use an adblocker?!?!?!?!?!
Is that possible on iOS on safari? I’m using piefed on the mobile browser. I guess I could just do Firefox but changing the default doesn’t mean everything goes to Firefox on iOS.
Firefox Klar works with Safari for me.
Saved you a click: It was the underlying mpeg-related patents used by the DivX codec. Filed by Siemens AG.
I remember back in the day that this was why everyone preferred xvid instead.
Is it somehow important for Linux?
No.
It has never been a “legal headache”, more of a bit of additional work for distro maintainers (to keep codecs separate from the rest of the distro) and a tiny inconvenience for users (they had to click an additional button after installing the distro).
Nowadays it’s almost entirely irrelevant. Unless you are in a tiny minority of users who need to play DivX-encoded video (a codec which is 25 years old at this point) for some reason, you don’t need to care at all.
Basically, this just made life of a few media horder nerds a tiny bit more convenient. Frankly i shouldn’t be typing out a comment this long to even explain it…
It has never been a “legal headache”, more of a bit of additional work for distro maintainers (to keep codecs separate from the rest of the distro) and a tiny inconvenience for users (they had to click an additional button after installing the distro).
Was that ever? Whenever someone whined about codecs back in the day, I would just install mpv or vlc (which were and are in most official distro repos I know of) and call it a day.
Ohh siemens ag are the baddies? I just bought their stock. I wouldnt have, had I known about this.
