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> One of the most widespread is Google’s Widevine and avoiding its footprint today is almost futile. I don't know about that. Brave asks me if I want to insta
by __MatrixMan__ 1y ago
> One of the most widespread is Google’s Widevine and avoiding its footprint today is almost futile.
I don't know about that. Brave asks me if I want to install the widevine extension and I just say no and go elsewhere. I guess it's possible that I just don't know what I'm missing, but it's been fine so far. Now that I'm aware of the circumvention effort though, I'll probably look into it.
- viraptor 1y agoYou will know when you need it. You're likely not streaming videos from the usual big providers in that browser.
- azalemeth 1y agoI haven't ever bought DRM content, and actively delete widevine from every browser I encounter. It's amazing how often it's used for adding unique IDs, amongst other evil purposes.
- gruez 1y ago>It's amazing how often it's used for adding unique IDs, amongst other evil purposes. Really? Maybe ublock catches most of the fingerprinters, but I rarely see the prompt to enable DRM.
- __MatrixMan__ 1y agoThat's true. I found the whole streaming thing kind of finicky back in the day so my habit is to torrent the whole thing up front so that whatever problems I might have half-way through a movie are all self inflicted and not associated somebody's downtime.