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There was a bit of news on Slashdot recently about Google (allegedly) quietly making their DRM implementation (Widevine) plugin mandatory in Google Chrome installations with a recent version.
I had a poke around GC's options (chrome: plugins specifically), tried to disable the plugin myself (which it would let you), but then when I restarted Chrome the plugin was re-enabled. I tried the same with the Adobe Flash plugin, same thing. I then tried it with the internal PDF viewer, which worked (but then I had to re-enable it through the general options UI (content settings > PDF reader setting).
I was wondering whether others have encountered this behaviour with older versions of Chrome or perhaps this is a regression? It would seem surprising that they wouldn't allow Flash to be disabled, simply because it's an easy countermeasure for any user in the event of a Flash zero-day exploit.
In other news, how can one stop auto emoticons when posting here? I've had to insert a space between chrome: plugins for it not to be interpreted as .
I had a poke around GC's options (chrome: plugins specifically), tried to disable the plugin myself (which it would let you), but then when I restarted Chrome the plugin was re-enabled. I tried the same with the Adobe Flash plugin, same thing. I then tried it with the internal PDF viewer, which worked (but then I had to re-enable it through the general options UI (content settings > PDF reader setting).
I was wondering whether others have encountered this behaviour with older versions of Chrome or perhaps this is a regression? It would seem surprising that they wouldn't allow Flash to be disabled, simply because it's an easy countermeasure for any user in the event of a Flash zero-day exploit.
In other news, how can one stop auto emoticons when posting here? I've had to insert a space between chrome: plugins for it not to be interpreted as .