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Blog post author here. Since this post, there's now an option available for DRM-enabled Electron. However, it's only available through a single vendor, castLabs [0].
This is a closed source, downstream effort which means no modifications can be made to Electron itself. All changes must make it upstream to show up in this fork. When asked whether they would eventually merge it upstream, they didn't provide a clear answer and the issue has since been deleted for some reason [1].
I also wrote a followup blog post with more detail on the current state of DRM options on the web [2]. Spoilers: it's not great.
[0] https://github.com/castlabs/electron-releases
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20200907140928/https://github.co...
[2] https://blog.samuelmaddock.com/posts/the-end-of-indie-web-br...
Brave also started out this way—building a browser on top of Electron. [0]
Building something on top of the Chromium project is still building a browser. You're right that it's not building a rendering engine though.
[0] https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop
I believe that's mistaken. From the article:
> As far as I’m aware, Widevine is the only available DRM for a Chromium-based browser, especially so for Electron.
But according to this [0] the Chromium-based Edge browser supports both Google's WideVine CDM and Microsoft's PlayReady CDM. Not sure if that's really any help, but that's a different question.
[0] https://github.com/google/shaka-player/issues/2492#issuecomm...
The code included in the GitHub repository downloads the closed source Electron binaries. Just for comparison, the full source would look something more like what's accessible here: https://github.com/electron/electron
If so, I'd encourage you to contact the owners of the repositories listed in Google's DMCA notice against the Widevine cryptographic key and help them file a counter-notice. https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/11/2020-11-0...