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Legitimately playing 4K blu-ray video on a PC without cracking the DRM requires an insane combination of requirements:
- Windows 10 (not 11)
- An Intel processor between gen 7-10 (nothing newer because Intel ditched SGX in 2021)
- Intel integrated graphics (no nvidia/amd)
- Monitor that supports HDCP 2.2 for DRM (some 4k ones don’t)
- An approved optical drive
- Proprietary playback software which costs about $100 USD, separate from the cost of hardware and Windows
- Miscellaneous other requirements for the motherboard features, bios settings, etc.
Meanwhile MakeMKV can rip them on basically any Windows/Linux/Mac system with a compatible BDXL drive.
I switched from Chrome to Firefox in 2019 because that’s when Google adopted Manifest V3 and I never looked back. There were already articles then describing how it’d break ad blockers, and Firefox had at the time just recently released their “Quantum” overhaul which drastically improved responsiveness.
I’m a bit surprised it took five years for Google to drop support for Manifest V2, but the threat has long been there.