Chrome Widevine DRM can no longer be disabled

Re:Chrome Widevine DRM can no longer be disabled by superkuh on Monday January 30, 2017 @01:54AM (#13519164)

> Extension signing is not forced though, can be toggled from about:config.

Unfortunately that is no longer true. Their argument was that users could be tricked to disable it, or run extensions that disable it. So to cater to the lowest common denominator user they completely removed the option for all users of Firefox.

The alternatives are the non-Firefox (unbranded) Firefox builds or using an alpha version of Firefox (developer version).

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Re:Chrome Widevine DRM can no longer be disabled by hashhar on Monday January 30, 2017 @06:23AM (#13520196)

Thanks for the information. I've been running only Nightly for over a year now and hence my misinformation. That logic does seem sound though but would be better implemented if any change to any preference that's not visible in the Preferences section raised a notification about it. I think I'll add this to Bugzilla.

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