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Widevine is a proprietary digital rights management (DRM) system that is included in most major web browsers and in the operating systems Android and iOS.It is used by streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu etc., to allow authorized users to view media while preventing them from creating unauthorized copies.
Vivaldi (/ v ɪ ˈ v ɑː l d i, v ə ˈ v-/) [12] [13] is a freeware, cross-platform web browser with a built-in email client developed by Vivaldi Technologies, a company founded by Tatsuki Tomita and Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner, who was the co-founder and CEO of Opera Software. Vivaldi was initially released on 27 January 2015.
LibreWolf was initially released for Linux operating systems on March 7, 2020. [5] The goal of the LibreWolf project was to create a more privacy-focused version of Firefox. [ 6 ] A community-maintained version for Windows was released a year later, with a macOS port released soon after.
Google Chrome and all other Chromium-based browsers including Microsoft Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, Huawei Browser, Samsung Browser, and Opera [4] Gecko: Active Mozilla: Mozilla Public: Firefox browser and Thunderbird email client Goanna [b] Active M. C. Straver [6] Mozilla Public: Pale Moon, Basilisk, and K-Meleon browsers Trident [c] Maintained ...
Open-source software that decrypts protected content is not prohibited per se. Decryption done for the purpose of achieving interoperability of open source operating systems with proprietary systems is protected. Dissemination of such software for the purpose of violating or encouraging others to violate copyrights is prohibited.
Firefox's implementation of EME uses an open-source sandbox to load the proprietary DRM modules, which are treated as plug-ins that are loaded when EME-encrypted content is requested. The sandbox was also designed to frustrate the ability for services and the DRM to uniquely track and identify devices.
Internet Explorer 7 added "protected mode", a technology that hardens the browser through the application of a security sandboxing feature of Windows Vista called Mandatory Integrity Control. [39] Google Chrome provides a sandbox to limit web page access to the operating system. [40]
The ungoogled-chromium project was founded by a hobbyist with the user name Eloston in 2015. It was first developed for Linux, then for other operating systems. [12] [13] Eloston used to release builds, but eventually he stopped doing so and allowed others to provide builds with his patches.