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If Google succeeds with the new DRM policy, will that affect functionality of browsers like firefox which uses a different engine? (feddit.rocks)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] scutiger 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The whole point is that non-Chromium browsers might lose functionality on a significant portion of major websites. Imagine if Amazon, Netflix, and Youtube suddenly stopped working in Firefox. How many Firefox users would tolerate that?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are not limited to using one browser at a time. Use firefox as much as you please. You can use google if you must.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Sure, because the average user won't think his Firefox to be broken and just switch to chrome altogether. Chrome has no issue with that site after all. Once enough pages have it even most technically inclined people will probably not want to constantly juggle between browsers, just to use their banking site or whatever.