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Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking by rndgermandude on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @10:54AM (#21584946)
Yes, pretty much, except that Canonical is nice enough to open source their patches. And they layer a ton of patches on top of the official kernel trees, mostly backports but also some new features. Their linux_5.0.0-36.39.diff is close to 35MB.

And remember the time when Debian layered some changes on top of openssl? http://faq.caslavka.cz/attachments/196/randomness.png

Now, what changes does Google layer on top of chromium to make Chrome? Do you know exactly?

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Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking by geofft on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @11:46AM (#21585516)
Yes, it's pretty easy to disassemble it and find out. It's basically auto-updates, some closed-source extensions like Chromecast (although you can manually download the Chromecast bits for Chromium if you'd like), some branding differences as compile-time #defines. https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs...

(Do you know that all of Chromium is in fact open source? Have you looked at the source and the build process? Are there any parts in it that are actually precompiled binary blobs?)

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Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking by colejohnson66 on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @11:58AM (#21585671)
Does Chromium contain the DRM needed to play sites like Netflix? I know many here are against DRM, but it’s necessary if I want to use my Netflix.
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Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking by behringer on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @02:43PM (#21587664)
Netflix will play a 720p version if you don't have a DRM supported browser. Also netflix distributes native apps to all platforms, which means you don't need chrome to use netflix in full fidelity on any device except maybe linux?
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Re:uBlock Origin: Address first-party tracker blocking by singron on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @01:54PM (#21587126)
Widevine is a DLL bundled with Chrome. You can copy it into a Chromium installation and use Netflix. I don't know if this violates TOS/licenses/law.
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