I just remove stickers because I hate all manner of visual distractions. If I could find a way to remove etched in / painted on logos from from computer hardware I'd do that too.
Got a (pretty good) apron from William Sonoma but it had the logo sewed on with a huge patch, had to painstakingly unstitch it to get a pretty apron without any branding emblazoned across the front.
TV streaming services already do as much of this nonsense as they can get away with. The more "secure" of an environment their DRM runs in, the higher resolution the image they'll let you see.
It's just subtle enough (e.g. lower definition but will still play) and most people use "secure" enough setups that only techies, media gurus, or that one guy who's still using a VGA monitor connection end up noticing
If anything dreamwidth is closer to livejournal. Livejournal predates tubmlr by years and years, but there was a migration from livejournal to dreamwidth for reasons I don't fully remember.
Got a (pretty good) apron from William Sonoma but it had the logo sewed on with a huge patch, had to painstakingly unstitch it to get a pretty apron without any branding emblazoned across the front.