Now such companies lobby for WebAssembly. A software blob running in your browser. It's actually similar evil as ECE.
They will recompile their old rusty software to the web. eg Newspapers will make websites as blob-applications - Adblockers won't work any more. New forms of DRM will slip into web world this way.
We need a fork of Firefox/Servo-based/Chronium that is more lightweight, becomes mainstream pretty fast with a great community and has no inbuilt DRM and no WebAssembly support.
They will recompile their old rusty software to the web. eg Newspapers will make websites as blob-applications - Adblockers won't work any more. New forms of DRM will slip into web world this way.
We need a fork of Firefox/Servo-based/Chronium that is more lightweight, becomes mainstream pretty fast with a great community and has no inbuilt DRM and no WebAssembly support.