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I sometimes see on Opera on Android:

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Allow protected content

https://www.politico.com/ wants to play protected content. Your device's identity may be accessed by this site.

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Why do some sites ask me to share my device's identity to them?

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    Access to DRM protected media can require a license provided by the site. As I understand this life is then identifies your browser and could be used for tracking you. That seems to be the mentioned "device identity" see the the Wikipedia description of that feature en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encrypted_Media_Extensions Commented yesterday

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By "protected content", it means DRM-restricted media. Whenever you play DRM content, the website can fingerprint your device by using DRM-related credentials, or can identify you straight by exploiting vulnerabilities in DRM. That is why it gives you that message. The website may or may not necessarily fingerprint you when you play DRM content, so you are not necessarily sharing your device's identity just by playing DRM-restricted media. The message is just a "warning".

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