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by anotherhue 1049 days ago
Ignore the codec information (fascinating though that branch of comp.sci. is), what's interesting here is exactly how much Google is in control of Chromium, and by extension the web.

The fact that we have to get on our knees and plead for their consideration versus just fork and ship should make you ill. No compression without representation or some such.