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Re:Mozilla Launches a New Firefox Version Without DRM Support by rcthompson on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @04:48PM (#9534759)
Also, if you do visit a site that uses DRM and your browser doesn't support it, it will show up in the server logs, so just using it is sending a message.
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Re:Mozilla Launches a New Firefox Version Without DRM Support by thusoy on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @06:02AM (#9537842)
Sadly, it doesn't. I was hoping for this as well, so I tested it, and it turns out that the user agent of the two browsers are identical.

  EME:      Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0  
  EME-free: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/38.0
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Re:Mozilla Launches a New Firefox Version Without DRM Support by rcthompson on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @02:45PM (#9541103)
But wouldn't the server logs show that the browser loaded the page but failed to set up the video stream because it didn't support EME?
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