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You will know when you need it. You're likely not streaming videos from the usual big providers in that browser.





I haven't ever bought DRM content, and actively delete widevine from every browser I encounter. It's amazing how often it's used for adding unique IDs, amongst other evil purposes.

>It's amazing how often it's used for adding unique IDs, amongst other evil purposes.

Really? Maybe ublock catches most of the fingerprinters, but I rarely see the prompt to enable DRM.


That's true. I found the whole streaming thing kind of finicky back in the day so my habit is to torrent the whole thing up front so that whatever problems I might have half-way through a movie are all self inflicted and not associated somebody's downtime.



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