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I flat out have DRM disabled in my browser. If I really really need it, then that's what VMs and VPNs are for.

I'm curious what are those use-cases where you really need it? I have DRM disabled since forever and never experience any problems that I can relate to that.

Which really makes you wonder why so many people fought hard to get it into the browser.

So they can monetize the consumption of video/audio.

Music and TV/movie streaming, and that's about it afaict. I've got it disabled too, and I essentially never see issues unless I go to Netflix.

News videos don’t always work without it either.

Maybe I don't visit enough news sites, but I never saw a news website have DRM on their videos.

I think I've seen it on news sites like once? And thanked my settings for stopping something that was surely going to annoy me.

But broadly yeah, same

Ohh yeah, that's the only time I've had a problem, but the video has never been that important and if it is it's on Youtube.

That's more of a bonus and not an issue.

I think spotify doesn't work without it but I switched back to keeping all my music local long ago.

ok, never used that...

Streaming television

tvheadend would work, if browsers would support mpeg2.

Which should never have been a website in the first place.

Same here. For one interim pragmatic purpose, I do have a dedicated setup that has DRM, which I use only for that purpose. I hope to get rid of the nasty DRM altogether in the future.

(For the browser part of the DRM setup, I use Chrome/Chromium, the violate-me-all-the-ways browser. For all other browser purposes, I use both Firefox, the violate-me-fewer-ways browser, and Tor Browser, the draw-fire-of-state-actors-but-thwart-techbro-actors browser.)

What's preventing you from getting rid of it now?

> that's what VMs and VPNs are for

To get the content from a different source in a more user-friendly format, right?

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