> AIUI, the larger reason for wanting EME is to kill Flash and other plugins. EME is also a plugin. Specifically, it's the Widevine plugin. Only now it's inst

> AIUI, the larger reason for wanting EME is to kill Flash and other plugins. EME is also a plugin. Specifically, it's the Widevine plugin. Only now it's installed by default on everyone's systems. And Chrome is already playing games and moving the setting from chrome://plugins to being buried under chrome://settings/content. That "it runs everywhere by default" will mean even smaller websites will start using it to strip user freedoms. Read the comments here: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=675596 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=675596 Website owners are chomping at the bit to stop people from being able to save offline content. > Flash needs access to many, many more OS-level features than any EME plugin does Then make EME plugins optional, and don't ship them by default with browsers, and don't make them officially part of the HTML5 spec. Just because something is 'inevitable' doesn't mean you have to embrace it, if it's a fundamentally bad thing. This is usually referred to as 'having principles.' > Flash not shipping by default didn't exactly stop smaller sites from relying on it, though But it has resulted in many sites using HTML5 video. Especially when Apple decided not to ship it on iOS. And right now, I can right-click and save those videos to my hard drive, which is just lovely for taking videos on the go with me.