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karel
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While using Windows 10Windows 10 (Build 19042), I tried taking a screenshot of frame from a video played on a popular website using Google Chrome,Google Chrome and EdgeEdge browsers, and the video player part of the website was blackened (on purpose, I assume).
ThisThis fails when using the prt sc keyboard button, snipping tool, and Winkey + shift + s utils.

When using ChromiumChromium web browser in Ubuntuin Ubuntu however, taking screenshots with any available tools does not block the video section.

I assume in Linux systems such censoring is not possible due to the X Window System architecture, thus such censoring methods are less possible to achieve.

My question: is Is this some sort of hardcodedhard-coded feature in Windows 10 regarding copyrights? Or, or is it a web-browser browser hardcoded feature? If it's a Windows'Windows that's doing it, how does the OS recognize a video block to be censored insideinside a running software such as a web-browser browser?

While using Windows 10 (Build 19042), I tried taking a screenshot of frame from a video played on a popular website using Google Chrome, and Edge browsers, and the video player part of the website was blackened (on purpose, I assume).
This fails when using the prt sc keyboard button, snipping tool, and Winkey + shift + s utils.

When using Chromium browser in Ubuntu however, taking screenshots with any available tools does not block the video section.

I assume in Linux systems such censoring is not possible due to the X Window System architecture, thus such censoring methods are less possible to achieve.

My question: is this some sort of hardcoded feature in Windows 10 regarding copyrights? Or is it a web-browser hardcoded feature? If it's a Windows' doing, how does the OS recognize a video block to be censored inside a running software such as a web-browser?

While using Windows 10 (Build 19042), I tried taking a screenshot of frame from a video played on a popular website using Google Chrome and Edge browsers, and the video player part of the website was blackened (on purpose, I assume).
This fails when using the prt sc keyboard button, snipping tool, and Winkey + shift + s utils.

When using Chromium web browser in Ubuntu however, taking screenshots with any available tools does not block the video section.

I assume in Linux systems such censoring is not possible due to the X Window System architecture, thus such censoring methods are less possible to achieve.

Is this some sort of hard-coded feature in Windows 10 regarding copyrights, or is it a web browser hardcoded feature? If it's Windows that's doing it, how does the OS recognize a video block to be censored inside a running software such as a web browser?

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Pizza
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Why are screenshots on some websites are blocked in Windows, but not in Linux?

While using Windows 10 (Build 19042), I tried taking a screenshot of frame from a video played on a popular website using Google Chrome, and Edge browsers, and the video player part of the website was blackened (on purpose, I assume).
This fails when using the prt sc keyboard button, snipping tool, and Winkey + shift + s utils.

When using Chromium browser in Ubuntu however, taking screenshots with any available tools does not block the video section.

I assume in Linux systems such censoring is not possible due to the X Window System architecture, thus such censoring methods are less possible to achieve.

My question: is this some sort of hardcoded feature in Windows 10 regarding copyrights? Or is it a web-browser hardcoded feature? If it's a Windows' doing, how does the OS recognize a video block to be censored inside a running software such as a web-browser?