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Posted February 07, 2017
So beware anyone that uses Chrome.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/chrome-57-permanently-enabled-drm,33527.html

"The next stable version of Chrome (Chrome 57) will not allow users to disable the Widevine DRM plugin anymore, therefore making it an always-on, permanent feature of Chrome. The new version of Chrome will also eliminate the “chrome://plugins” internal URL, which means if you want to disable Flash, you’ll have to do it from the Settings page."

Same goes for PDFs.
Posted February 07, 2017
*Firefox, Opera and Vivaldi laugh*
Posted February 07, 2017
Wait, what? Is Google out of their mind? What good can come to this?
Posted February 07, 2017
This is also why I do not use Google Market at all, since I can't even share the APK of a free game with friends.
This also affects Chronium, since its basically "Chrome LE" version.

Google is new MS, thank you very much for heads up.

Firefox ftw.
Opera and Vivaldi are same trash as Google.
Posted February 07, 2017
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Plokite_Wolf: *Firefox, Opera and Vivaldi laugh*
Palemoon also chuckled ;)
Posted February 07, 2017
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Lin545: Firefox ftw.
I love Firefox, but the devs should stop trying to kill it.
The lastest attempt is allowing webplugins only.
Posted February 07, 2017
Yep, Firefox all the way! Thanks for the heads up fishbaits.

So wait, why the fuck does a web browser need DRM? I never knew this was a thing before reading this post

Also:

These plugins have their own security issues, but unlike with the Flash vulnerabilities, security researchers are banned from looking for them, due to Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). That means malicious hackers, who already engage in other criminal activities, may freely take advantage of all the vulnerabilities they find in these DRM plugins before companies discover them on their own.
Ah, another reason to hate the DMCA.
Posted February 07, 2017
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JK41R4: Yep, Firefox all the way! Thanks for the heads up fishbaits.

So wait, why the fuck does a web browser need DRM? I never knew this was a thing before reading this post
Its basically Flash, but not "plugin" anymore. A built-in version.

Wouldn't suprise me, if with next step Chrome abadons PPAPI completely.
Posted February 07, 2017
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JK41R4: So wait, why the fuck does a web browser need DRM? I never knew this was a thing before reading
It was widevine plugin, used for DRM-protected contents.
Posted February 07, 2017
You could try using Chromium (which is Chrome minus proprietary stuff) instead.
Posted February 07, 2017
WORKAROUND
Remove two files below and RESTART Google Chrome, now you have no widevine DRM. :-)
libwidevinecdm.so
libwidevinecdmadapter.so

Test page:
http://demo.castlabs.com
Posted February 07, 2017
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Lin545: ...This also affects Chronium, since its basically "Chrome LE" version. ...
Are you sure? Afaik Chromium based browsers (e.g. Opera) don't feature the Widevine plugin by default.
Posted February 07, 2017
Thanks for pointing that out, I'm gonna stay faithful to the foxy browser ;)
Posted February 07, 2017
Thank you for the info, I switched to Firefox and uninstalled Chrome as that's a worrying issue.


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kbnrylaec: WORKAROUND
Remove two files below and RESTART Google Chrome, now you have no widevine DRM. :-)
libwidevinecdm.so
libwidevinecdmadapter.so

Test page:
http://demo.castlabs.com
I wonder if those files would be back after each update.
Posted February 07, 2017
Will this affect Iron SRWare Chrome?
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