I don't know, but I'd guess that is based on Chromium rather than Chrome, and I doubt SRWare uses "Chrome" in the name of their software "Iron".

video streaming, netflix, amazon & co
you can't possibly expect Hollywood to allow them to stream unprotected contents.
cuz, you know, all them pirates out there ...

thx to the pressure from the content mafia DRM support is officially part of the web standards.

hurray ...

Well, that sucks. But what sucks even more is that I still haven’t found what I’m looking for—a browser as good as Google Chrome (based on my own criteria and usage).

Yesterday, I tried the Brave browser because I found the idea interesting. It sucked, though. Particularly, the UI and page rendering were all messed up. (Perhaps because it’s in early development?)

A few months ago, I tried Firefox, but some useful Chrome features were missing and some others were worse, so I quickly switched back.

I suppose I’ll try Vivaldi and see how that one goes. It looks good, at least.

Afaik Firefox downloads and enables Widevine and Primetime CDMs by default. However, both can be disabled.

Huh, just noticed Widevine and Primetime on my Add-on list. Never noticed them before this.

Edit: Which websites host content that needs Widevine and Primetime?

Ah, luckly I disabled the DRM option immediately.

^this

It's as ridiculous as sticking "do not pirate this" or similar on dvds, when the only ones that are forced to watch these before the film starts, are those that paid for the dvds in the first place :/

Yep, Chrome is the Devil's cum and I will never touch it. It breaks my heart seeing how shitty Firefox is becoming after Mozilla decided to mimic ever single bullcrap made by Google for CrapChrome...

Video streaming services I guess. Netflix, for instance, uses a multi-DRM approach.

If you even look at the recent business decisions and changing of minds by Google lately you will know they are completely clueless and out of touch with consumers despite having the most data about them. Their big push for Allo and Duo as a competition to Apple's FaceTime has been a complete disaster. And they are shutting down and opening other projects left and right. They way they have been handling YouTube horribly with lots of backlashes, YouTube Red is a failure. The company is too big for it's own good now and suffers from lack of direction. Of course, they can afford to have many experiments, but I'm getting tired of the direction they're pushing Android to by every releases. I actually prefer to not have a Nexus/Google phone, than to have one now.

Well, this is probably an unpopular opinion that I'll say right here, but I don't really see what's the problem with including that Widevine DRM by default. After all, it presumably doesn't really do anything until one visits sites with DRM content and then he'll certainly want it enabled there, so that he can watch whatever he wants from there.
And it isn't only Netflix who employs this scheme. A week or so ago, I wanted to check out the news archive of ANT1 (a Greek TV channel) as my uncle told us that my cousin was on tv for a few seconds. I seeked the proper date of the news from Chrome and then wanted to download it with a Firefox extension. Because ANT1 uses JWPlayer Firefox was like "Do you want to enable the DRM?". I was like "Sure I do! How else am I gonna watch/download this thing?" So yeah...this DRM here doesn't require jumping hoops and the anti-DRM stance of Firefox was more hoop-jumpey than Chrome's.
I also agree though that Firefox isn't a good alternative as I'd like it to be, as I need to download a gazillion extensions there to replicate some functions of Chrome (e.g. having the option to go to the parent folder of a bookmark when right-clicking on it -useful since I have many bookmarks and the neighbour bookmarks might be related to what I'm looking for in the bookmark search, or right-clicking an image to search it with Google Images or translating a foreign web-page easily), and it turns out the fact it has a single process means that it's heavy on my CPU -combined ofc with the gzillion extensions. I might check it again once Electrolysis gets into the stable version, but until then...

Fixed ;)

To the best of my knowledge, Chromium does NOT have the DRM component. I had to switch to Chrome to be able to watch Netflix.

One obvious issue: It's not open source. This means it can't be included in many Linux distributions (for example, Debian and Fedora).

That also leads to another issue: It can't (easily) be audited for security issues. If there is such an issue, then simply having it installed and viewing a web page could result in your computer being hacked.

There's also the fact that some people, me included, consider DRM to be unethical in the first place.