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by wmf 3061 days ago
Everything you say is true, yet... the Google approach works and the others don't. If our choice is free and mostly-open protocols from Google or using HTTP/1.1 + TLS 1.1 + TCP w/ CUBIC + IPv4 w/ NAT forever, Google doesn't sound too bad.

This is related to the AV1 vs. MPEG discussion from the other day where people pointed out that we basically have a a choice between free codecs developed by Google/Netflix or codecs that suck you dry from legal fees.