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A comment on Netflix and Spotify on a Raspberry Pi 4 with Chromium and Widevine.

Re:Netflix and Spotify on a Raspberry Pi 4 with Chromium and... by Uhrheber on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @02:44AM (#25925423)
And nobody is concerned about running an obscure third party binary blob, that is only meant to annoy you, on an otherwise open source OS?
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Re:Netflix and Spotify on a Raspberry Pi 4 with Chromium and... by 3np on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @04:35AM (#25926112)
You made an open Broadcom firmware?!
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Re:Netflix and Spotify on a Raspberry Pi 4 with Chromium and... by fsflover on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @06:06AM (#25926747)
See also: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=11815
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Re:Netflix and Spotify on a Raspberry Pi 4 with Chromium and... by mindslight on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @02:39PM (#25932864)
To be fair, a separate machine is exactly how you should run proprietary blobs. Although I certainly wouldn't want the increased administration overhead of tinkering with this when it inevitably breaks, compared to the Free solutions that are generally rock solid.
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