Samuel Maddock personal blog
I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me
After 4 months of waiting, that is the response I got from Widevine, Google’s DRM for web browsers, regarding a license agreement. For the last 2 years I’ve been working on a web browser that now cannot be completed because Google, the creators of the open source browser Chrome, won’t allow DRM in an open source…
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Web & FrontendSecurity & Privacy2019
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 2019 | I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me by smaddock | 1,920 | 605 |
| Jan 20, 2021 | I tried creating a web browser and Google blocked me (2019) by gu5 | 479 | 186 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 9 Hacker News comments by 9 different people, from May 2019 to Jul 2023.
Most recent:
- danShumway · Jul 22, 2023
- Natfan · Jan 12, 2022
- parhamn · Nov 29, 2021
- dvfjsdhgfv · May 28, 2021
- nikitaga · Oct 22, 2020
- DCoder · Jun 14, 2019
