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What proprietary standards do you mean? Web technologies aren't proprietary.


Great. Go build me a browser capable of streaming 4k video across all major streaming providers and accessing Windvine DRM (all levels).

Oh, and make it work flawlessly across every site (including the top 10,000 alexa sites) without any issues at all. And try and wade through the mountains of chroumium exclusive bullshit (Google makes the standards).

Go talk to Mozilla about how easy that is (they even have to spoof UA strings to make things work properly).

Good luck.


"complex" isn't equivalent to proprietary. I doubt it's easy to write a Linux fork, either.


All the examples they gave were proprietary or non-standard features , not just "complex".


And none of the examples they gave are necessary for a functioning browser.


Do correct me if I'm wrong, but Google's Widevine and similar DRM technologies seem to be. I have to manually install a blob in order to stream video from sites like Netflix.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Plugins/Flash_to_HT...


You don't have to install anything if you don't want to. You are free to not watch tv shows you don't want to.

Some content creators protect their's content more some less. What has that to do with open web?


Why are these things starting to sound the same, and somehow being framed as "freedom" and "choice"...

If you don't like Facebook/Youtube/Reddit censorship(moderation), you are free not to use them (they are private platform).

If you don't like installing proprietary blobs to watch Netflix, you are free not to use Netflix (they are a private company).

If you don't like paying taxes / agree with government, you are free to not live here and move to Somalia (this is voluntary society and you choose to pay taxes!).

I'm sure there are few other similar ones, just can't recall them at the moment.


Suppose that in order to render stylized web pages, you had to install a non-free binary blob. You're free to not render websites you don't want to, and scroll through what's akin to a minimal HTML tree.

Some content creators protect how their websites look more, some less. Would you still consider CSS a part of the open web?




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