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Blame Netflix for this garbage. And if you use their service, you can stop as well.


Why not blame youtube as well?


Media Source Extensions (MSE)[1] were added for YouTube HTML5 video, and is different from Encrypted Media Extensions (EME)[2], which is what allows DRMed videos.

MSE allows things like adaptive bitrate while streaming and programmable video buffering without a plugin.

[1] https://w3c.github.io/media-source/

[2] https://w3c.github.io/encrypted-media/


So are you really telling me Youtube wouldn't use EME if it was there?




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