Ars is a few weeks late to the game here. Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24094386
I don't really get the melodrama of most of the top comments in that the old thread nor the current headline. Everyone is bemoaning how this is what drives people to piracy... but does Chrome not work anymore? Is the bar for resorting to piracy that low? It's hard to feel sympathetic when the starting position is presented as "It's broken, we've been forsaken!" but then on inspection it turns out to really be a case…
Desktop Linux and the anti-DRM movement have always been that way and the intersection of both is even worse.