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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by ehsankia on Monday September 18, 2017 @08:29PM (#15280875)
"There's a lot of money involved, therefore there must be foul play."

I personally would much rather have a secure, optimized and clean implementation, rather than hacky plugins and poorly developed solutions that put me at risk and destroy performance.

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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by slrz on Monday September 18, 2017 @10:30PM (#15281335)
But hacky, platform-dependent plugins is exactly what we get. Websites just get a standardized JS API to talk to these hacky binary-only plugins.
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