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by flukus 3429 days ago
Because no private company should have that much control, we've been down that path and it was bad enough I thought it should be obvious.

Then there's things like adding DRM, a user hostile "feature" google shoved down our throats. Visit netflix on a linux box and you'll discover that "works with chrome" is the new "works with IE".
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seanp2k2 3429 days ago
It works in Ubuntu. Maybe I'm missing your point. It didn't used to work on Linux at all, without jumping through a ton of hoops pretending to not be Linux.
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gcp 3429 days ago
It only works if your browser claims to be Chrome. (That's how you can get it working in Firefox, too)
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flukus 3429 days ago
The point is you should never have had to pretend, web browsers shouldn't contain DRM. It's not working for me on arch.
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pjmlp 3429 days ago
And Flash Ads were easy to turn off instead of the pile of workarounds we have to use nowadays with JavaScript ads.
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