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Yeah, DRM has always scared away all the users. That's why nobody adopted DVDs, that "Netflix" company failed to create a video streaming service, Steam never became a dominant game distributor, etc.
Most people won't notice or care. Most companies' customers will buy what's advertized to them. It's very dangerous to assume consumers want freedom, we need to fight for it, not ignore the threat due to naïve idealism.
IT guy here. Most people do not, in fact, have an ad blocker installed.
Maybe they care, maybe they don't, but they definitely value convince over privacy.
Which is strange because I find the internet without an ad blocker to be extremely inconvenient
You'd be surprised at how many "easy" things someone will avoid because they're a "not computer person" and think clicking the wrong button will launch a fucking nuke.
To be fair, a lot of my customers are clueless boomers.
I once worked at a software company where it took the frontend guys like a month to finally notice that common adblockers broke one of their sites (which didn't actually have ads on it, funnily enough). None of them noticed because none of them used adblockers on any of their machines. When people like that don't run adblockers, it's not realistic at all to expect the average user to do it.
As a full stack guy that has done his fair share of front end work, I use an adblocker on the devices that I use in my personal realm. I don't have them in my development area because most people don't use them. I want what I test on to be as stock as possible. I've observed that most people go with what "comes out of the box." That said, I get to look at my efforts on my personal devices. If something is off, I'll see it. If I had to code to every popular extension, it would be hard to get anything done.
Sadly most people don't have an ad blocker installed. Per this site <50% use ad blockers. Most users are using mobile devices, and the majority of those don't have any ad blockers available in their default browsers/webViews. They won't notice.
People didn't have access to non-drm versions of those for 20 years first though. If we started with drm web then I'd be less optimistic, but people are going to notice when their sites don't work.