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  • kingthrillgore@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    Am I the only one concerned Google may try to pull a fast one and block Mozilla from using the Widevine DRM?

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      7 months ago

      Time to boycott widevine and insist websites switch to an open standard … (though honestly good luck with that, Google might very well win that battle)

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        7 months ago

        Not that easy since the W3C mandates everyone use Widevine or something similar. There was such a shitshow over this that the EFF pulled out of the org.

        Google has the internet by the danglies via this little whatsit and the W3C can do nothing about it, because Google accounts for a sizable amount of their funding, and dropping Widevine/EME would break everything.

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        7 months ago

        Also, Google could just more simply stop funding Firefox: Mozilla gets a lot of money from Google just to be the default search engine. Then again, maybe Firefox can switch to Bing or Duckduckgo, though I don’t know if those would pay as well as Google.

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      7 months ago

      I’ve never seen any websites use it… btw mozilla kinda abuses widevine by running it in an isolated container (because no one wants proprietary drm software running directly on their machines!)