Until Netflix decides you can only watch high resolution content via Chrome passing the DRM check.
Or your banking website does the same. Or YouTube. Or PayPal. And so on.
Though, honestly, nobody so far came up with any good explanations as to how this DRM scheme inside a browser would truly prevent adblocking and screen recording - my browser hasn’t got higher privileges than my admin user account.
my browser hasn’t got higher privileges than my admin user account
They’ll fix that. The endgame might very well be you can only run a trusted browser, safely checked by your OS, itself trusted, running on fully signed code from a trusted source, started on a trusted motherboard/CPU, with hardware lockdown that would only boot trusted kernel and embed private keys so deep that you’d need a full lab to recover them, only to have them remotely disabled if anything funky seems to be happening at any point in that chain.
For now, this is fiction. For now. We already started moving that way with secureboot, opaque UEFI in our systems and TPM modules. The only saving grace is that they currently all have flaws.
I mean, you can just literally read the Google DRM github repo and it’ll tell you everything you need to know about how bad this is for the free internet.
Until Netflix decides you can only watch high resolution content via Chrome passing the DRM check.
Or your banking website does the same. Or YouTube. Or PayPal. And so on.
Though, honestly, nobody so far came up with any good explanations as to how this DRM scheme inside a browser would truly prevent adblocking and screen recording - my browser hasn’t got higher privileges than my admin user account.
They’ll fix that. The endgame might very well be you can only run a trusted browser, safely checked by your OS, itself trusted, running on fully signed code from a trusted source, started on a trusted motherboard/CPU, with hardware lockdown that would only boot trusted kernel and embed private keys so deep that you’d need a full lab to recover them, only to have them remotely disabled if anything funky seems to be happening at any point in that chain.
For now, this is fiction. For now. We already started moving that way with secureboot, opaque UEFI in our systems and TPM modules. The only saving grace is that they currently all have flaws.
yeah the goal is that the browser verifies the OS and itself and reports back that it’s running in a “secure” (ie, not user controlled) environment
My computer my control fuckers. I’ll stop using 99% of the internet. I don’t give a fucking shit.
I mean, you can just literally read the Google DRM github repo and it’ll tell you everything you need to know about how bad this is for the free internet.
you can already only watch netflix hdr content on edge.
Still Chromium based
That has nothing to do with Chromium, but Edge being the only browser integrated into your system enough to use the DRM of your chipset.
Yes, and how many people bother to do that when other means are so much easier even if you pay for Netflix…
On edge and Piracy, you mean. ;)
I don’t, myself, use Edge.
I also don’t do piracy, but downloading Edge sure looks less convenientn every day…
Vudu, Hulu, and I’m sure others already prevent Hdx+ content unless it’s through chrome or Microsoft’s whatever-it-is.
Good thing I sail the high seas. Fuck those companies.