Flagging for inaccurate/inflammatory title. Google isn’t stopping the author from creating a web browser.
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
#42As I often write here on HN: "Learn the lessson not to make yourself dependent on a despot.".
Re: I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me
#43This is the only reason you can't watch Netflix on FreeBSD using chromium or Firefox, too.
How do you hack around it?
Your only options are to videos from a DRM free source or remove the DRM. The later is prohibited in most jurisdictions. Just hope your vision and hearing stay unimpaired because DRM locks out all accessibility software.
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#44If only we'd been warned about the risks of handing over so much influence to Google by basing everything around their browser... >-<
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#45The 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.
> The 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.
The blame for this sits squarely on the users for their tolerance of malware (which DRM is) in the browsers that they use.
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#46I wont use browsers with widevine. I refused to include widevine in any browser I worked on. Widevine is clearly a backdoor and chrome is often installed setuid root
Re: I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me
#47The 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.
> The 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. The blame for this sits squarely on the users for their tolerance of malware (which DRM is) in the browsers that they use.
Do you think most users even know what drm is, or that it's being run?
Re: I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me
#48Flagging for inaccurate/inflammatory title. Google isn’t stopping the author from creating a web browser.
In an absolute sense this is true, but in all practical senses the title holds.
Re: I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me
#49How does firefox manage to play drm content? Maybe OP could use firefox's approach? Someone mentioned below that redistributing is not allowed, but downloading at runtime is ok. Not sure about it, but if anyone knows about this, please explain it to the rest of us.
Re: I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me
#50Flagging for inaccurate/inflammatory title. Google isn’t stopping the author from creating a web browser.
Just from creating a browser with a reasonable feature set, like, say, the ability to play non-obscure videos.