Re:Switch from Chrome to Firefox
by dccoolgai on Thursday May 30, 2019 @02:47PM
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The day the Web sold its soul. Such a disappointment when TBL came out in support of that. People who knew better tried to warn us, but they all got shouted down and told there "was no other choice" b/c content creators were going to try an lock down with extensions and it would somehow be worse.
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TBL? Can you extrapolate? I google it and its "The Basketball League". I just think your comment had the opportunity to continue to educate me on something I have never heard of or about and to throw in an acronym without having used the the 3 words before is confusing.
Tim Berners Lee
dccoolgai was probably refering to this:
I think he's referring to EME (encrypted media extensions - W3C's standardized DRM for the web).
I can't tell if there is humor tied to this response, but either way it's a brilliantly written reply to my comment. Gave me a chuckle, and got my upvote.
tim berners lee? i guess
Re:Switch from Chrome to Firefox
by asadotzler on Thursday May 30, 2019 @02:56PM
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Not with extensions, with plug-ins, and they were already doing it. Flash and Silverlight came with DRM for any publisher that wanted to use it. Many did.
Plugins would be fine; you could always point out, that they are non-standard. Now, if you fail to support the right EME plugin, it is the browsers fault.
Re:Switch from Chrome to Firefox
by asadotzler on Friday May 31, 2019 @11:01AM
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Back in the day a browser without those plugins was not viable. Non-standard didn't matter.
I know, but that's not the point. The point is, that the pain for the non-standard support had to be taken by the proponents of DRM. Now, it is up to the foss crowd.
IOW, it was not about tech issue, but about social issue / blame-shifting.