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EME should be a permissions, just as much as asking for the users microphone and web-camera. Iirc when Firefox caved in on this whole CDM thing, they made it so
by josteink 10y ago
EME should be a permissions, just as much as asking for the users microphone and web-camera. Iirc when Firefox caved in on this whole CDM thing, they made it something the website needs to request access to before it can be activated.
I see no technical reasons for why Chrome shouldn't be able to do the same.
I guess Google has an active interest in promoting DRM, and as such making DRM cumbersome to use is counter to that goal.
- tehabe 10y agoThis is actually the case, but the setting in incomplete, you have a setting called "Allow sites to play protected content (recommended)" in the Settings (Chrome 57). Missing is "Ask" and a whitelist.