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DRM Can Watch You Too: Privacy Effects of Browsers' Widevine EME (2023)

35 pointsby exceptione06/16/20257 commentsview on HN

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jwrallie06/17/2025

Interestingly, DRM is also being used by Signal for privacy concerns over Windows Recall, as discussed on HN [0] previously.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44053364

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JCattheATM06/16/2025

I flat out have DRM disabled in my browser. If I really really need it, then that's what VMs and VPNs are for.

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exceptione06/16/2025

(I had to editorialize to get the title within the limits)

shmerl06/17/2025

Not surprising at all.

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