> I used to watch all stuff I wanted on a MacMini attached to a dumb TV. Suddenly, Netflix stopped working on all browsers except chrome. How is this possible?

> I used to watch all stuff I wanted on a MacMini attached to a dumb TV. Suddenly, Netflix stopped working on all browsers except chrome. How is this possible? I was told that standardizing DRM interfaces in the browser would stop Netflix from forcing users to download native apps instead of using regular browsers and open streaming technology. > Google makes the Widevine DRM, and seemly lately it has been notorious for doing silent changes that break it on all platforms except official Chrome versions on Windows, Android and Chrome OS So wait, standardizing DRM interfaces didn't do anything to increase platform/browser availability for the actual DRM implementations that are only licensed to be used with certain browsers and on certain devices? No one could have predicted this. Utterly shocking. It's almost like the standardization process for web DRM changed literally nothing about Netflix/Chrome's plans, and really only existed to provide a PR boost and the veneer of respectability to an outcome that they were always going to pursue anyway regardless of what the standard was. Oh well, live and learn. And by "learn", I of course mean make the exact same arguments verbatim the next time we want to standardize DRM interfaces on image tags and then accuse critics of wanting the open web to die.