I cancelled my subscription since I received a notification that my browser is not supported. Perhaps I should have mentioned my issues with DRM as well, but this may have gone too far. One message is clear, too many messages are noise.

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[–] 112 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I wish Firefox didn't support DRM of any kind.

DRM is a mistake and shouldn't be considered a "web standard"

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  • [–] 101 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I agree DRM sucks, but if Firefox didn't support it, even more people would flock to Chrome. You can disable it though.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Can you though? It still involves bundling non-free software that is basicly malware (software the harms the user)

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  • [–] 53 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yes, you can disable Firefox's DRM feature, which means DRM code will not run and you won't see DRM-protected content.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    That doesn't completely remove it though

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  • [–] [S] 27 points 2 years ago

    I agree but admit that I share some responsibility as DRM is optional and I choose to enable it for some sites. Quite often, when a site is less essential to me (or its DRM features) I decline them. The more we decline them, the more probable that there will be free alternatives of some services.

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    LEGEND!! Wish more people were like you.

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  • [–] 52 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I doubt that they read those

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Let them lose 3% of their business if Linux only

    What is ff market share?

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  • [–] 34 points 2 years ago

    Good. Fuck 'em.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    There are hundreds of us! HUNDREDS!

    jk. As a current and longtime FF user I feel your pain.

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    👏👏👏

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    I'm proud of you, son

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    Priracy for the win!

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Often with stuff like this, it still works when you clean cache and set your user agent to Windows and Chrome.
    Would be curious to see if it works, OP.

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  • [–] [S] 41 points 2 years ago

    The truth is that it mostly worked other than some issues with full screen but firefox has better ways around it. I really wanted to make the statement since I saw the notification that encouraged me to switch to another browser. Firefox is fully compliant and so should be their service. And should be DRM-free but that will be another discussion in the future.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Is it because of DRM, or reliance on experimental APIs?

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  • [–] [S] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I think we should address this question to the site. Neither is acceptable though.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    I'm guessing it's completely compatible, I've had sites that show that and they've always worked fine after a useragent change. I have no idea why they'd say it doesn't work when I probably does, but I guess that's what you get when google rules everything

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    What’s this service? Some sort of streaming?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    GNU/Linux, cringe. Just say Linux, most tools that come with distros are not even GNU nowadays

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 years ago

    Either Linux or GNU/Linux is OK to me. It's the practice that makes the difference. While I mostly use Debian, which defines itself as GNU/Linux and I appreciate every aspect of it, I recognise that Arch Linux (which drops the GNU) has a much healthier approach to free software than Red Hat (recently at least), which defines itself as GNU/Linux but adds clauses to RHEL which are against the spirit of free software. I prefer using GNU/Linux because, as a statement, respects things that are important to me. Of course, I am totally cool with other people using any term they feel more comfortable with.

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