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The End of Indie Web Browsers: You Can (Not) Compete

by smaddock on 1/8/20, 3:08 PM with 10 comments

• by zentiggr on 1/8/20, 5:38 PM

  I for one would love to see new browsers come forward and explicitly state that they are not implementing EME in any way, and see just how that plays out.

  My optimistic (maybe too deeply rose colored) vision would be for viewership of EME-locked content to drop off so far that the companies using it have to give up and reopen distribution.

• by theamk on 1/8/20, 5:52 PM

  Note this only applies to a small number of websites: Netflix, Hulu, etc... And there are plenty of people who do not visit those websites from their primary computer.

  So while this is definitely annoying, this is hardly the end for all the indie browsers -- just like EA banning Linux gamers does not mean that all gaming on Linux is dead.