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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.