![]() Those concerns are true of both Silverlight and Adobe’s CDM, but at least with Silverlight the plugin was installed on a per-user basis as opposed to an automatic install for everyone. The big concern with closed source programs is that you can’t look at the code to see if it’s threatening privacy by leaking data, or if it has a giant security vulnerability that no one knows about. The main problem is that Firefox, which is an open source browser, now downloads and installs a closed source solution by default. ![]() ![]() At face value, it may appear like you’re trading one DRM-playing plugin for another, but the change has been a source of contention within the open source community.
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