Re:Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions t...
by userbinator on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @11:25PM
(#20048102)
Crack the DRM and do it in a country that does not care about DMCA and has lax copyright laws. You could create an "illegal browser", and judging by how effective all the other antipiracy efforts have been to date (i.e. not at all), I doubt you'll face too much opposition...
Re:Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions t...
by arpa on Thursday May 30, 2019 @12:33AM
(#20048417)
Or don't consume DRMed content?
Re:Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions t...
by Sabinus on Thursday May 30, 2019 @01:22AM
(#20048628)
So, all commercial video content on the web?
Re:Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions t...
by zentiggr on Thursday May 30, 2019 @11:28AM
(#20052194)
Sure... vote with your wallet, only in video space. When DRM'ed content becomes less popular, companies will have to reconsider.
Of course, I'm one of those who doesn't care much about mass media in general. Addictions could make this shift impossible.
Re:Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions t...
by josteink on Thursday May 30, 2019 @03:03AM
(#20049016)
Not all commercial content is DRMed. Example: Rifftraxx.
You can also enjoy lots of high-quality, DRM-free content on YouTube, Vimeo, peertube, fosdem and god knows where.
There’s more to internet video than Netflix, Hulu and Prime.
Re:Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions t...
by TeMPOraL on Thursday May 30, 2019 @04:07AM
(#20049286)
From the perspective of general population - which is where you need adoption to be even a mote of dust next to Chrome - no, there isn't.
Re:Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions t...
by asark on Thursday May 30, 2019 @11:05AM
(#20051947)
Or go the "insert DeCSS here" route that some used back when that was a thing. "If you happen to have somehow acquired a WideVine lib, having hash [some string], stick it here if you want to watch Netflix."
Re:Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions t...
by frenchy on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @11:02PM
(#20047992)
> support modern video
There's nothing particularly modern about DRM.
Re:Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions t...
by TylerE on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @11:26PM
(#20048110)
In some sort of Stallman utopia maybe. In the real world...
Re:Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions t...
by arpa on Thursday May 30, 2019 @12:33AM
(#20048412)
Well maybe we don't really need DRM? I mean, there are other sources of entertainment which do not threaten the FOSS
Re:Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions t...
by zwaps on Thursday May 30, 2019 @02:45AM
(#20048942)
Sure, people gonna use a browser where the only entertainment is a 240p stream of Stallmann chewing his toes.
These responses... Dont support amazon or netflix, twitch? Even FOSS needs to be realistic and see what is a solution and what is not.
A FOSS product needs to support the things people want to do. Otherwise it will not succeed. We should have learned this in the last twenty years.
Without Firefox and its compromises, Google would have 99% market share and FOSS people would browse wuth Lynx or wget
Re:Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions t...
by arpa on Friday May 31, 2019 @01:28AM
(#20058433)
Yes, support direct torrent video streaming. Screw the fat cats. Long live Stallman, death to late stage capitalism computing!
Re:Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions t...
by Aeolun on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @08:22PM
(#20047154)
Use an open-source DRM solution?
Google can and does use DRM to block even this from happening: https://blog.samuelmaddock.com/posts/google-widevine-blocked...
Even Mozilla needed to license Widevine from Google to support modern video: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-drm
Based on the policy evidenced in Maddock's post, it seems impossible to develop an open-source browser in 2019 that supports video streaming.