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by Piskvorrr 2498 days ago
I'm honestly surprised that FTP is still supported in web browsers. FTP is as non-web as you can go without resorting to Gopher - plus the protocol is Anfient and Broken (and plaintext [shudder]). This shouldn't have been a part of any browser, ever.
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There are still sites that have ftp downloads. Sucks to have to install a dedicated client where you could just click and download in the browser.
There are still sites that have magnet: downloads. Sucks to have to install a dedicated client where you could just click and download in the browser. Where's the difference, except for "we've always done this, and we've never done that, therefore this good, that bad"?