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> No, I'm still a happy Netflix subscriber. And they would have done just fine in a plugin model. Wouldn't that include disadvantages for the users? Plugins ar
by PurpleRamen 4y ago
> No, I'm still a happy Netflix subscriber. And they would have done just fine in a plugin model.
Wouldn't that include disadvantages for the users? Plugins are usually a black box, working independent and lacking any way for customizing. The solution now is narrow enough that customization is possible for users on the harmless parts, without touching the DRM-part. By which I mean things like play-settings, the interface, behavior. There are many different types of extensions for changing the user experience on Netflix and such, stuff which did not exist for Flash&Co.
- shadowgovt 4y agoI spent years authoring plugins. Anybody who cares about end-use security should want plugins out as quickly and completely as possible. They literally ran in the same process as the browser. Full access to the memory itself. No security at all, and many of them were closed source. The DRM standard was a strict improvement over the status quo.