@SwooshyCueb It's not that, it's literally that Linux Opera doesn't support streaming content with copyright protection

@SwooshyCueb HDCP or w/e

@ShugoWah I think it's called widivine and I hate it

@SwooshyCueb yeah that sounds right

apparently you can do some dumb bullshit re: shadily downloading some kind of chromebook recovery image and extracting a DRM-enabled lib from it or something but fuck that, haha. I'll just watch it in Firefox

@SwooshyCueb I wish I didn't hate Firefox's interface or I'd just go back over to that, but I just like way too much stuff about Opera, it's a -very- good browser aside from that this one edge case

@ShugoWah @SwooshyCueb it's the same issue as chromium. they are licensed to distribute the web drm modules only on certain platforms and only in certain distributions.

web drm is a fucking plague and fuck the w3c people who thought it was an acceptable compromise.

@shaderphantom @ShugoWah so you need a license to distribute something that is required to implement a w3c specification

fuckin galaxy brain logic

@SwooshyCueb @shaderphantom the modern internet is a hellscape

@ShugoWah @shaderphantom let's make our own standards committee

With blackjack and furries

@SwooshyCueb @ShugoWah it's worse than that; implementing the w3c spec is easy, but it's basically just deferring to a proprietary black box module that the browser _may_ choose to support. like media formats in html5 media tags.

it functions more or less identically to NPAPI plugins like Flash. completely compromises the security model they set out to have when destroying NPAPI in favor of web platform solutions.

@shaderphantom @ShugoWah wow I really am in the worst timeline

@ShugoWah I think you might also be able to just copy it from a local chrome installation but idk if it auto-updates. Also something about having to mess with your user agent. Just not worth the hassle IMO

@ShugoWah yeah I know, I wasn't referring to that lol, sorry for the confusion