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by morkalork 904 days ago
How can you say you're a champion of the free web in the same breath as lamenting not being able to wrest away users control over their own devices?!
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We can have a free web or we can have a web that replaces app stores completely. We can't have both.

I personally prefer a completely free & open web, but I understand that means I'm going to be installing binaries for some things. I'd much rather have to download netflix.exe than have the current state of browser drm for example.

You'd rather have a locked down connection because you want to control what users do with the content you're selling.
You must have somehow missed the end of their comment that more or less sums up the nuance. ;P
The nuance is basically to drop the “free” - it’s cleaner. Otherwise their business model of sending nudes to random strangers on the internet does not work