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Please re-read my post. These steps are not technical but they are very significant. Consider how you would provide this plugin to your users as the author of
by asdfgadsfgasfdg 10y ago
Please re-read my post.
These steps are not technical but they are very significant.
Consider how you would provide this plugin to your users as the author of a new browser? You have to ask the plugin authors for permission to use it.
Then consider that you have to persuade Netflix to allow the users of your browser to use their site (without changing user agents).
Neither of these steps were required with NPAPI
- caf 10y agoYour browser can just download the plugin from Google the same way Firefox does. No permission required since you're not distributing it yourself. This is no different than the case of the Silverlight plugin. There is no reason why Netflix would need to do user-agent sniffing - the EME API is built around request access to specific "Key Systems" (eg. Widevine) by well-known-name. If they do user-agent sniffing that's an entirely separate issue, and is just as much as problem in the Silverlight case.
- criddell 10y ago> You have to ask the plugin authors for permission to use it. I don't believe that's true. The plugin is freely available. You just have to write the host. I don't think Netflix or the rights owners would care since the stream is protected equally in any browser.