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I just created a new Firefox profile (v55.0.3, current stable), and the "Play DRM content" setting is enabled by default.

You may be thinking of the Flash plugin, which I believe Firefox and Chrome both do block by default and have done so for a while now.

No, I mean Play DRM content, not Flash plugin. I'm on developer edition though, and it's been a while since I installed it, so I might be wrong. Thanks for your info!

The default in Firefox depends on which build, which operating system, which distributor. It's a boolean pref that you can flip the other way if you don't like the default you got.

Google was one of the organizations that pushed the DRM standard through the W3C. Because Youtube.

Chrome has been shipping DRM called "Widevine" for years.

In fact Chrome was the first browser to support HTML DRM. Google enabled this when nobody else did.

Google is absolutely not your friend.

And that's their DRM, by the way. Google bought the company in 2010.

Google wants DRM.