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Sounds like only a matter of time until Microsoft adds this to Edge (and Chromium) and thenn any page can prevent you from taking a screenshot


This already exists in browsers. It's why you can't screenshot movies on youtube.com or netflix.com for example.


Part of that has to do with acceleration overlays, not DRM. You can often disable hardware acceleration and get your screenshot that way. Netflix is DRM though.


Both use L1 DRM*.

* At least for full resolution




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