UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/57.0.2987.13 Safari/537.36 Steps to reproduce the problem: Since this month, chrome://plugins is gone and all plugins are enabled as per Issue 615738. If I visit a site that uses HTML EME, my display enables HDCP and content on the site is decrypted and starts playing. What is the expected behavior? If a site uses HTML EME, it should fail silently or with a cryptic error message about how I should enable the Widevine plugin. What went wrong? Please allow me to disable the Widevine plugin or HTML EME altogether. Here are my reasons for disabling EME: * When playing encrypted content, Chrome frequently (about every 20 minutes) crashes. When that happens, all my tabs go blank and rerender about half a second later. * Encrypted content forces my display to use HDCP, which causes my screen to flash when it is enabled. * When one of the gazillion tabs I have open uses EME, my HDMI splitter doesn't work anymore because of HDCP. I'm baffled that a web site can elicit this kind of change on my computer without any permissions necessary or a way to disable it. * Lastly, I don't want other web developers who are checking the available APIs in my browser to think that HTML EME is widely available and can be deployed to no ill effect, for the reasons mentioned above. I hate DRM with a passion and I'm really angry that is has beem shoehorned into HTML to begin with. All those things considered, I'm begging you to bring back a way to disable the Widevine plugin. Did this work before? Yes 55? Does this work in other browsers? N/A Chrome version: 57.0.2987.13 Channel: dev OS Version: 10.0 Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 24.0 r0
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Chrome Widevine DRM can no longer be disabled
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