Re:Pocket Casts goes open source
by Barrin92 on Sunday October 23, 2022 @07:58AM
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it's true though isn't it? Some people keep complaining about chromium related apps, but from different browsers to electron based apps it has without a doubt pushed open source like almost nothing else, it's sort of the OS of the web.
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It's an OS for the web, but the web is increasingly in control of the same entity that controls chromium. And chromium helped them a lot in getting that much power over the web. I don't think that qualifies as improving openness or user control.
The OS of the web crippling extensions and plugins because it hurts its ad-business is not what I would call "being focused on user-control". They're focused on control, yes, but not in our favour.
Users of Chromium have announced that they will reenable those extensions and plugins - so what, exactly, is the problem there?
This is opensource working as intended - someone else can build it with feature set you want.
The problem is that OP used Chromium as an example of a project "focused on user control" when in fact it is actively trying to remove control from the users's hands.
I was citing extensions and Manifest v3 as an example of that, I don't care about the feature and what people can do to go around this.