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Re:Lockdown – The coming war on general-purpose computing (2... by candiodari on Sunday May 14, 2017 @11:35PM (#14338975)
Google for (oh the irony) "Widevine" and how it interacts with it. So it has the same sort of problems that Microsoft palladium had : things like Netflix and the like simply won't work as soon as you have the developer switch enabled.

General purpose computing is dependent on 2 things : ability to run your own programs AND the ability to lie about that fact to the network. Without the second the first is useless.

Google understands this subtle point, but it appears most people do not. So Google is exploiting our ignorance here.

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Re:Lockdown – The coming war on general-purpose computing (2... by microcolonel on Sunday May 14, 2017 @11:43PM (#14339001)
I'm pretty sure Netflix works fine with developer mode switched on. I can confirm at the moment (away from Chrome OS devices right now) that Widevine works fine with Netflix on desktop Linux; I'm pretty sure I remember Widevine working on my Chromebook with developer mode enabled.
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