Also from Jamie Zawinski yesterday: Mozilla’s Original Sin

Some will tell you that Mozilla’s worst decision was to accept funding from Google, and that may have been the first domino, but I hold that implementing DRM is what doomed them, as it led to their culture of capitulation. It demonstrated that their decisions were the decisions of a company shipping products, not those of a non-profit devoted to preserving the open web.

Those are different things and are very much in conflict. They picked one. They picked the wrong one.

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    4 months ago

    DRM is opt-in. For sure it is kind of in favor of Netflix and Co. But they could just forced people to use Chrome, couldnt they?

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      4 months ago

      If they gave you a warning before it downloaded that would be fine. It also would be better if they had a option to completely disable it. (No popups)

      But no, they decided to make it happen in the background with no user interaction. This is just one of my many complaints against Firefox.