DRM enabled Google to have an open source browser still under its control
I think the blame needs to be directed at the video streaming companies, not at Google.  Can you go to Netflix and just download a .mp4 of their latest show?  Nope.  That's on them, not Google.  If Netflix cared about a cross-browser experience or open standards, the tools are available to them.<p>With that in mind, they should really hire someone that has access to Usenet or a private Bittorrent tracker.  All of Netflix's shows are available for free in 4k there.  Google sold them DRM that doesn't actually work.  Netflix paid their employees millions of dollars to have meetings and develop code to work with the idea in mind that Google's magic beans would save their content from piracy.  It didn't work, though.<p>You should be mad at Netflix.  Netflix should be mad at Google.  But everyone just carries on like everything is great.  It's weird.