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Disabling Widevine
Widevine is automatically downloaded and updated on demand in Chromium so that media protected via such form of digital rights management (DRM) can be played back out of the box.
Widevine is, however, proprietary software, so Ubuntu allows you to launch Chromium without loading, downloading or updating it by using the --disable-widevine command line flag.
It is important to understand that commercial streaming services typically employ such DRM and by using that flag you accept that the their content will not play back.
If you nonetheless wish to have Widevine always disabled in Chromium, open a terminal and execute
echo 'CHROMIUM_FLAGS="$CHROMIUM_FLAGS --disable-widevine"' >> "$HOME/.chromium-browser.init"