[striking]

Thank you for succinctly explaining most of the reasons I dislike WebRTC.

Now if someone could explain why I'm getting downvoted to hell...

10 points gone so far. I've never experienced this. Are people really that uncomfortable with opinions? Perhaps I've slain someone's sacred cow :)

[MichaelGG]

Probably because adding full networking to browsers is an old topic and probably never gonna happen due to the abuse concerns mentioned.

Plus permissions dialogs sorta don't work, especially for something like networking. "This page wants to use the Internet: Allow?" would just confuse the hell out of users. The alternative, acknowledge that WebRTC data should be a really limited use case, doesn't appeal to the authors/implementors.

[J_Darnley]

> sacred cow

Yes: javascript and browsers. But its just imaginary internet points, they don't really matter that much.