[tor-bugs] #16285 [Tor Browser]: Make sure EME is no tracking risk in Tor Browser based on ESR 38

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#16285: Make sure EME is no tracking risk in Tor Browser based on ESR 38
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     Reporter:  gk       |      Owner:  gk
         Type:  task     |     Status:  new
     Priority:  normal   |  Milestone:
    Component:  Tor      |    Version:
  Browser                |   Keywords:  ff38-esr, tbb-linkability,
   Resolution:           |  GeorgKoppen201506
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Comment (by gk):

 Replying to [comment:4 gk]:
 > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1144903#c4: `ac_add_options
 --disable-eme` ftw!

 But hsivonen has a point (in
 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1144903#c16):
 {{{
 If you want to persuade streaming providers not to use *DRM*, it's
 probably easier to persuade them to move to Clear Key, which is Free
 Software-implementable non-DRM encryption, which is technically equivalent
 to HLS with keys in the clear, which is already familiar to the providers
 and makes stream ripping with curl or wget take more effort, than to
 persuade them to drop media file-level encryption completely as the first
 step. In that sense, having the anti-DRM constituency use a browser that
 doesn't have Clear Key makes it harder to get streaming providers to make
 a shift off-DRM, which is presumably what the anti-DRM constituency wants!
 }}}

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