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Re:Is it worth supporting Firefox? by josteink on Monday May 07, 2018 @09:58AM (#17012734)
> And a DRM for website instead of only video DRM that exists, so that user cannot view source code, and no extension can block the ads. Other publishers are doing the same thing. Expect new DRM for HTML5 too.

I mean noone, absolutely -noone-, foresaw this coming nor warned about the slippery slopes of letting stuff like this into the standard in the first place.

Nope. Absolutely noone. This was a genuine surprise to all of us.

Re:Is it worth supporting Firefox? by gsnedders on Monday May 07, 2018 @10:15AM (#17012892)
I still don't see it happening, outside of silos. There's no precedent for DRM'd content outside of silos (like much of the digital publishing ecosystem, especially with ADEPT and whatever Amazon use), unlike with video and audio (through plugins like Flash).

Unlike EME, there's a far stronger argument of "the web has survived without this for 25 years" (and yes, for better or for worse, I consider a plugin with over 99% market penetration as part of the web), and I think that still holds weight.

Re:Is it worth supporting Firefox? by dingo_bat on Monday May 07, 2018 @12:31PM (#17014078)
> I still don't see it happening, outside of silos.

For mobile, the only remaining options are silos.