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No AI* Here - A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter - Waterfox Blog (www.waterfox.com)
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[–] 9 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I don't understand this part:

Waterfox’s governance has allowed it to do something no other fork has (and likely will not do) - trust from other large, imporant third parties which in turn has given Waterfox users access to protected streaming services via Widevine.

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  • [–] [S] 22 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    Widevine is the defacto standard proprietary technology for DRM-locked content. It's used by all the major streaming services like Netflix and Disney+. Without it, publishers would not make their content available to those platforms for fear of rampant piracy, especially for high quality and 4K content. I guess Widevine requires some sort of vetted relationship with any browser that wants to use their tech.

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