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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: chrome and everything
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On Friday 03 Jun 2011 21:07:36 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 18:22 on Friday 03 June 2011, Indi did
> opine
>=20
> thusly:
> > > > Neither. Adobe is utterly incompetent and apathetic, google is evil
> > > > and wants to sell ad space for h3rb41 v14gr4 in your brain.
> > > >=20
> > > >=20
> > > >=20
> > > > Flash is a necessary evil for a lot of us, chrome(ium) is not.
> > >=20
> > > I think of it more a case of there being no viable alternative to
> > > Flash[1] whereas Chrom{e,ium} is just one more browser amongst many.
> > >=20
> > >=20
> > >=20
> > > I use Flash myself even though I hate the way it performs.
> > >=20
> > >=20
> > >=20
> > > [1] There are flash alternatives, but by and large only support out of
> > > date features, so they are not really "viable".
> >=20
> > Agreed. I do wish we'd get something open and reasonably well coded to
> > replace flash,=20
I do hope that html5 will do away with it altogether.
> > but I think perhaps the biggest reason for the success of
> > flash is its sneakiness in tracking users and ability to enforce DRM. B=
ig
> > Business just loves that sort of thing.
Thankfully, rtmpdump and friends do away with such issues. =20
> Compare skype. Someone just reverse-engineered critical bits of v1.4, I'll
> bet money that Skype's (now MS) response will be to tweak the app so that
> any open-source implementation gets no response from Skype infrastructure
> when used. Same possibility of sneaky shit going on under the surface.
I'm looking forward to using it - especially if it will allow me to stop Sk=
ype=20
using my machine (and bandwidth) as a proxy node.
=2D-=20
Regards,
Mick
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