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It's so nice to see them all growing, but this is just the truth, sorry. (lemmy.ml)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My point is more that all these open source tools have been used by many, many, many sites to build a series of black boxes on top, for which there is no source available. I suppose one easy example is the existence of EME in open source browsers, the existence of which being the reason I actually don't run a pre-compiled binary of Firefox, instead building it myself, with EME not built in.