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Re:Browsers' bid for relevance is turning them into time-bombs by maxerickson on Saturday July 09, 2016 @08:52AM (#12061145)
There will be some way to opt out of EME though, so the presence of the channel outside of user control isn't any different than with flash.

(Hopefully something better than running a fork, but that option is there.)

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Re:Browsers' bid for relevance is turning them into time-bombs by gavinpc on Saturday July 09, 2016 @10:21AM (#12061340)
There may be a way for users to opt out.

I think EFF's point is that new browsers wouldn't be able to ship an EME feature without specific approval from the studios... at least that was my reading from previous articles here. I can't find the reference now.

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Re:Browsers' bid for relevance is turning them into time-bombs by edoceo on Saturday July 09, 2016 @10:57AM (#12061498)
In chrome you can disable it on the plugins page. I've done it. Lots of stuff doesn't play. So now I have a standby Windows 10 (spyware!) system to play Netflix/Hulu in Edge (don't hate me)
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Re:Browsers' bid for relevance is turning them into time-bombs by noir_lord on Saturday July 09, 2016 @09:01AM (#12061168)
I would be surprised if Firefox and possible Chromium didn't have a feature flag for it.
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Re:Browsers' bid for relevance is turning them into time-bombs by maxerickson on Saturday July 09, 2016 @10:04AM (#12061304)
I half checked before making my other comment and didn't find anything.

A second look reveals media.eme.enabled in Firefox, so it's already possible to turn it off.

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Re:Browsers' bid for relevance is turning them into time-bombs by cpeterso on Saturday July 09, 2016 @04:06PM (#12063057)
This EME pref is also exposed in Firefox's settings UI (as a "Play DRM content" checkbox (about:preferences#content on Windows and OS X). There is more documentation on Mozilla's Support site here:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-drm

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Re:Browsers' bid for relevance is turning them into time-bombs by johncolanduoni on Saturday July 09, 2016 @09:28AM (#12061235)
Since the EME video has to show up in HTML, there may be a way of an extension blocking it. If this is possible, I'd be surprised if it didn't end up as an option in uBlock Origin and friends.
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