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Re:Building a more private web: A path towards making third ... by arghwhat on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @12:35PM (#22047068)
Privacy ≠ FOSS.

DRM is an entirely different problem to that of privacy. While DRM is disgusting, a threat to open source as we know it and overall harmful to humanity as a whole, it does not inherently violate privacy.

Thus, saying "Even [the privacy maniacs] let proprietary and intrusive DRM plugin inside" doesn't make any sense.

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Re:Building a more private web: A path towards making third ... by negus on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @12:40PM (#22047112)
Do you know anything about this DRM plugin? Why would you think it does not work in private mode? What would you say about long-living unique user id that it associate with your device that can be read? It does violate your privacy as well
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Re:Building a more private web: A path towards making third ... by gruez on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @01:00PM (#22047361)
AFAIK in firefox DRM plugins are sandboxed
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