Posted on 05/08/2021 2:03:59 PM PDT by time4good
Every time they do an upgrade it becomes more difficult to be a mind reader. Made a big mistake upgrading to Windows 10.
interesting. thanks to all posters.
If it’s made by google, it’s sending them data. Widwvine is required for some streaming sites. Just use a VPN.
One of my biggest, most important, rules:
If it has anything to do with Google, don’t install it, don’t use it, run away from it as fast as you can. The only exception to this is my cell phone which runs the android (google) operating system. Even there I use the phone only for phone calls and as a hotspot for broadband as there is no broadband out here in the sticks.
AVOID GOOGLE. PERIOD!
Unfortunately, like most major browsers, Firefox had shipped with Widevine support for a while now. Brave will let you decide, but some sites will not work without it.
You do the math.
It’s google.
Of course it’s evil.
————SMH here, just wondering, WTF are you thinking? Of course, google’s whole raison d’etre is find you, follow you, and sell all of the data they mine to whomever wants to pay for it.
And you willingly sign up for that? Shirley U. Gest.
what browser are you using >>
I use firefox, chrome and edge.
A few years ago I worked on a WideVine implementation for the Intel based Samsung tablet. At that time, there was nothing nefarious in there, just a bunch of stuff to get the keys, and allow you to watch streaming video content.
Anything made by Alphabet Inc (Google) is compromised. They fully cooperate with the 5-eyes, 9-eyes, 14-eyes cabal. Use Tor as your browser and just duckduckgo search with your appropriate Panamanian VPN provider (NordVPN) who is not a member and will not provide user data to these countries. I never thought I would suggest using a Panamanian based company and I wouldn’t if there were other truly secure alternatives. I don’t know it is against policy to promote a particular product here, if so I apologize. But any VPN service in one of the eyes countries will turn over your data. And since you are probably a conservative Google will be more than happy to provide that when the coming political persecution gets started in earnest. But everything you have ever done is stored (encrypted or not) in a big shiny black building in Utah with it’s own power plant. There are a lot of DRM alternatives but I don’t know where they are based and what their policies are. A few of the top of my head are digify, Vitrium, NetX and CapLinked.
I won[[t install anything from google. It is guaranteed to be a new spy and control app with a convenience lure for the unwary.
sorry for my Alzheimers memory
It was not in taskmaster I went.
After the browser asked to download & install widevibe,
then I would check that download, looking and seeing the folder on the system it was installed to.
Then I would shut down the browser, go that folder and delete any widevine files I found in that folder.
At that time my browser was Firefox and I found the widevine files in one of the Firefox program folders.
I am now using Brave and their are no widevine files in Brave’s program folders. I think Brave has widevine integrated in it.
Hope this helps.
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