Hi Mike,

thank you for your patient reply.

> Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> writes:
>
>> Does the code include DRM support, for example?  Does it phone home?
>> Can we see the patches that upstream applied to the Chromium sources?
>>
>
> QtWebengine does not handle DRM at all. That is handled by a 3rd party
> plugin called wildevine and would require guix to bundle that plugin.
> Something I'm confident is not going to happen. As an added measure my
> proposed qtwebengine declaration has pepper plugins disabled making it
> impossible to load 3rd party plugins either way.
>
> see https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwebengine-features.html#html5-drm
> for reference

I’m aware of this.  My apologies for not expressing myself more
clearly.  We probably want to remove the support for the DRM plugin,
following the discussions about ungoogled-chromium at

    https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/34565

> In regards to QtWebEngine phoning home https://wiki.qt.io/QtWebEngine
> states all google services have been removed. Nothing I've seen
> indicates this is not the case.

Excellent.  Thank you for checking.

-- 
Ricardo


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