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by rvz 2247 days ago
The "Open Web" had already died the moment Facebook and Google had become ICAAN members and with Google owning TLDs. The moment you host on AWS, GCP or Azure, those providers reserve the right to terminate your contract for any reason, including no reason.

And last but not least, you remember WebAssembly right? Transparency-wise, it is worse than obfuscated Javascript since now you're loading a binary from someone else's server, making DRM and closing the web much further and easier, which is why the FAAMNG companies all have a reason to sit at the W3C round table.

If you have Mozilla receiving millions from Google for its search engine as the default on Firefox and Microsoft conceding to Google to build upon using Edge using Chromium, then we know who really runs the web.