> If you don't mind me asking, what exactly is at stake?
Only the old-style Web, by design a public forum, accessible by everyone in the same way using standards-compliant browsers.
What we're seeing is a plan to convert a very efficient way to share information, but not an efficient way to make money, into something that favors the latter goal over the former.
> They're pretty much the status quo.
That may be, but not so long ago the Web was the status quo -- the free, public forum.
Remember when Tim Berners-Lee complained about the deleterious effect of nonstandard browser extensions? This trend is the ultimate nonstandard browser extension -- it eliminates the browser entirely.
Only the old-style Web, by design a public forum, accessible by everyone in the same way using standards-compliant browsers.
What we're seeing is a plan to convert a very efficient way to share information, but not an efficient way to make money, into something that favors the latter goal over the former.
> They're pretty much the status quo.
That may be, but not so long ago the Web was the status quo -- the free, public forum.
Remember when Tim Berners-Lee complained about the deleterious effect of nonstandard browser extensions? This trend is the ultimate nonstandard browser extension -- it eliminates the browser entirely.