This is the only reason you can't watch Netflix on FreeBSD using chromium or Firefox, too.
How do you hack around it?
I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me
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Re: I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me
#12The blame for this sits squarely on the w3c for their efforts in trying to replace flash by letting the content companies dictate standards for encrypted playback.
If they had held fast, we could have forced the companies to do their key management in something like WebAssembly and avoided this gatekeeping mess.
Re: I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me
#13> For the last 2 years I’ve been working on a web browser that now cannot be completed because Google, the creators of the open source browser Chrome, won’t allow DRM in an open source project. It can too be completed, you're just not gonna have DRM'd content. I have a browser that has the same problem, and I just leave pages that can't do video playback (which doesn't include YouTube because they use WebM). There's…
You're right in general, but the OP's browser seems fairly useless without it
Yes - reading the post it appears OP's specific value proposition is keeping DRM'd videos in sync. This reminds me of watching Dawson's Creek with my girlfriend in 8th grade - we'd call eachother on the phone and watch the show at the same time. Anyway this would be the browser version of that, from what I understand.
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#15> For the last 2 years I’ve been working on a web browser that now cannot be completed because Google, the creators of the open source browser Chrome, won’t allow DRM in an open source project. It can too be completed, you're just not gonna have DRM'd content. I have a browser that has the same problem, and I just leave pages that can't do video playback (which doesn't include YouTube because they use WebM). There's…
Youtube has DRM and has nothing to do with WebM. It's just that not all the content is DRM-ed.
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#16Re: I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me
#17Sorry, for those of us not privy to how Widevine works, what's the problem exactly? What do you need Google's approval for and why?
Widevine is a DRM scheme. You need a license and information from Google to decode it without breaking the DRM.
Re: I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me
#18Send this to the @EU_Commission - they might look into it.
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#19let's address the elephant in the room.
Google got the authority from everyone here who accepted chrome and IE DRM by default, to the point that even Firefox was forced to give in, so you all could be sedated by Netflix and other DRMed content.