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by arp242 1008 days ago
I don't really want this to be the case. Remember when Firefox accidentally exposed all gstreamer plugins to the web?

Having some insecure unaudited badly written codec is fine for a lot of use cases because it operates on trusted data. But this is of course quite a different situation than being exposed to all webpages you visit.

The Amiga 3000 lived in a different world with a different internet.