[GTALUG] End of independent web browsers

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.