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Mozilla CEO quits, org pivots, but what about Firefox? (www.theregister.com)
submitted 9 months ago by ooli to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The issue is that Firefox needs an org to get the Widevine DRM from its vendor (Google). Without it, they can't support Netflix or Apple TV or YouTube.

[–] grue 10 points 9 months ago

Yet more proof that the DMCA needs to be repealed and DRM needs to be illegal.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Or we can just drop DRM from the Standard. It's honestly about 15 years past about time.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Okay have fun not using YouTube

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Youtube vids doesn't use DRM, at least not for the free offerings.

In fact, via yt-dlp you can download Youtube stuff in a variety of free formats.

Cope.