| "That's the most entitled comment I've read in a while." What's so entitled about asking? I'm not demanding anything nor insisting that I have a right to it. It's a simple request. Nothing entitled about it. On the other hand, I find your baseless, unfounded accusation rather insulting. "If you really are that worried why not create a virtual machine for browsing untrusted things." Because my old, slow laptop is too weak to run a VM. Not everyone is so fortunate to have a powerful enough computer to run a VM whenever they need to browse an untrusted website. That's not to mention that there are ways to break out of a VM, so it's not the best solution as far as security goes anyway. In any case, if you think running a VM is a valid response, I don't see why you'd be so aghast at asking for a much simpler, much less resource-intensive way of viewing the content: by using a simple downloadable video. Of course the receiver of the request is under no obligation to comply. In fact, they usually don't because people like me who care enough about their security to want to avoid javascript are in the tiny minority, and can be safely ignored. I'm well aware of this, but it doesn't hurt to ask, does it? |
a) spend a non-trivial amount of time creating a work around for you.
b) release artistic control of their content in a way in which it will be shown to people alongside adverts and whatever else these platforms decide.
c) a video would likely be larger than the original generated version, or suffer from video compression artifacts.