I cancelled my subscription since I received a notification that my browser is not supported. Perhaps I should have mentioned my issues with DRM as well, but this may have gone too far. One message is clear, too many messages are noise.

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I doubt that they read those

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Let them lose 3% of their business if Linux only

What is ff market share?

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Similar but a bit over 5% if targeting desktop https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share

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While there is overlap it definitely isn’t 1:1 though. There are tons of ff non-linux users and tons of Linux non-ff users.

This isn’t to detract from what you said, just add to it.

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not just Linux though, wouldn’t this happen on windows FF as well?

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They’ll lose maybe a dozen people on Linux/Firefox and they know it. Not even a rounding error since chromium is near monopoly status

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They won’t even lose a dozen. Itidd be like 5 after the rest spoof their user agents

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People for sure read them.

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Chad

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I wish Firefox didn’t support DRM of any kind.

DRM is a mistake and shouldn’t be considered a “web standard”

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I agree DRM sucks, but if Firefox didn’t support it, even more people would flock to Chrome. You can disable it though.

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Can you though? It still involves bundling non-free software that is basicly malware (software the harms the user)

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Yes, you can disable Firefox’s DRM feature, which means DRM code will not run and you won’t see DRM-protected content.

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I agree but admit that I share some responsibility as DRM is optional and I choose to enable it for some sites. Quite often, when a site is less essential to me (or its DRM features) I decline them. The more we decline them, the more probable that there will be free alternatives of some services.

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GNU/Linux, cringe. Just say Linux, most tools that come with distros are not even GNU nowadays

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Either Linux or GNU/Linux is OK to me. It’s the practice that makes the difference. While I mostly use Debian, which defines itself as GNU/Linux and I appreciate every aspect of it, I recognise that Arch Linux (which drops the GNU) has a much healthier approach to free software than Red Hat (recently at least), which defines itself as GNU/Linux but adds clauses to RHEL which are against the spirit of free software. I prefer using GNU/Linux because, as a statement, respects things that are important to me. Of course, I am totally cool with other people using any term they feel more comfortable with.

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