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i have yet to find a site where i needed to activate DRM. even on sites where firefox did tell me to activate DRM, i just ignored it and the site worked fine. that said, having the feature built in doesn't bother me as long as i have the option to ignore it or keep it turned off


Many streaming services will offer lower fidelity options if DRM is not enabled due to licensing agreements with third party content owners.


Those sites offer lower fidelity resolutions either way, DRM plugin is worthless. Heck, Netflix doesn't offer 4K streams even on a fully locked devices with L1 certificate, they have a separate licensing program that device vendors must participate in to get their products to be able to run Netflix.


Netflix is a pretty big deal.


Seemingly making netflix play at a good resolution is kinda impossible anyway.


The crappy compliance videos at my job have DRM :D As if anyone would like to watch them when not forced to.


Hey, I am sure people are payed very good money for these!

I wonder what the people making these videos are thinking. They know what people think of them, if they actually watch them before taking the usually obvious questionnaire that follows (hint: the answer is always "talk to your manager").

It reminds me of the time we took an electrical certification that we honestly didn't need but legally, we had to. It was in person, and the guy was actually great, and I think it is in a good part because he knew his place. He quickly got passed the regulatory aspects, then spent the rest of the time explaining stuff about house wiring, how breakers work, told us some entertaining (if sometimes a little morbid) stories and shown videos about electrical accidents. So it was maybe 10% what we were supposed to be for and 90% general information we could make use of in our daily life, all while keeping things entertaining.


Try Spotify’s web player.




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