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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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