Which is one of the main reasons why it’s such a problem that the search engine with an overwhelming market share also owns the browser with overwhelming market share and is also the largest online ad company. Not to mention they pay billions each year to the other browsers. Google has a huge amount of control over every part of this.

google is the owner of the DRM verification system, they add exception for google robots, website only appears on google, kills other search engines in the process

You’ll notice that Google search now shows excerpts from things you can’t actually see visiting the site (paywalled news, paywalled scientific articles). The age of “show us exactly what users see or get downranked into oblivion” is long gone, sadly.

If the DRM is coming from Google, I'm sure they'll take that into consideration when designing it. Feels ripe for an anti-trust lawsuit, but IANAL so who knows.

With that logic, wouldn't Widevine DRM already be ripe for an antitrust lawsuit? Genuine question.

When I wrote the comment I was imagining Google using the tech as a moat to stop other search engines from indexing DRM protected content. I guess if they shared it and "all" search engines could index the content, it would probably be fine? I'm guessing that's why Widevine is "fine".

But like I said, I'm not a lawyer and have no idea what I'm talking about.

It would be if antitrust regulators were not asleep.

EU would destroy them.

Which is why it hasn't rolled out yet. Once this is solved, you bet your ass they will start rolling it out.