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Re:Building a more private web: A path towards making third ... by driverdan on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @12:42PM (#22047135)
Users demand browsers support Netflix and other streaming services which, unfortunately, requires supporting DRM. This is a case of Mozilla putting users first, despite it violating some of their core philosophy.

This is how it should work, users come first.

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Re:Building a more private web: A path towards making third ... by ppseafield on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @12:46PM (#22047185)
Additionally they pushed against it initially, and implemented it late. And now it's downloaded separately the first time you approve it's use. Users can disable it in settings.
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Re:Building a more private web: A path towards making third ... by CarelessExpert on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @12:46PM (#22047175)
It's also a choice users are empowered to make.

Just as all this tracking protection stuff is optional but ships out of the box in a configuration that's deemed the most beneficial to the user, DRM, while enabled by default, can be disabled by simply uninstalling the plugin.

As I say: it just smells of whataboutism.

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