On 31/1/25 14:50, George at Clug wrote:
Does anyone use Firefox to watch DRM protected Video content?
Is it normal for DRM to display lots of ads whenever Firefox is loaded?
I did enable DRM once, a long time ago, and I started getting annoying
ads whenever Firefox was loaded. It took a while for me to determine it
was because of the DRM add-on. The DRM add-on was loaded into the user's
file space. I do not know if displaying the ads was normal DRM add-on
behavour or whether a malisious web page had replaced the originally
downloaded DRM file with a hacked version. My solution at the time was
to delete any Firefox folders in my /home/username area (e.g.
~/.mozilla/firefox). DRM was not too important to me, so I now just do
not enable DRM.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-drm
Firefox for desktop supports the Google Widevine CDM for playing
DRM-controlled content.
Disabling Google Widevine from the Add-ons Manager prevents it from
running on your computer and prevents future updates from downloading.
Please reply if you have had any such experiences.
George.
As watching video involves downloading the video, why not simply use
yt-dlp to download the videos, and, watch the videos with your
preference of video viewer?
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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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