[GTALUG] End of independent web browsers

[Christopher Browne]

The material takes somewhat extreme position, but it's curious that there
are only 3 "content decryption modules" out there, Widevine (Google),
Fairplay (Apple) and PlayReady (Microsoft), all of the vendors having
expressed some reluctance to license to small fry.  (Apple being
uninterested in sublicensing.)

https://boingboing.net/2020/01/08/rip-open-web-platform.html
https://blog.samuelmaddock.com/posts/the-end-of-indie-web-browsers/

Google seems, marginally, the "good guys" here, licensing their CDM to
various web browsers we know, but I'd not assume too much "goodness.". It's
not good to need to be so dependent upon their good graces.a

I'd never heard of these three technology names until today.
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