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Re:Switch from Chrome to Firefox by adfm on Thursday May 30, 2019 @12:35PM (#20052976)
Here's a good explanation... https://boingboing.net/2019/05/29/hoarding-software-freedom....
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Re:Switch from Chrome to Firefox by sneak on Thursday May 30, 2019 @01:31PM (#20053733)
Forking Chromium without Widevine is still entirely feasible. Not everyone cares about Netflix.

Also, a Chromium fork could use the Widevine binary blob the same way Chrome does today; I am not sure I understand this argument.

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