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		sbov on May 30, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Switch from Chrome to Firefox You have to license it from Google. And they don't always say yes: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/03/googles_widevine_dr...

mantap on May 31, 2019 [–]

That's only if you are making a browser and want to distribute it. There's no way that Google is going to mail howlers to end-users who use widevine with chromium forks.

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