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by 38 660 days ago
you're not getting it. imagine if every single public website today using JSON switches to protobuf, you instantly lost most if not all ability to reverse those sites.
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All these sites go through an evolution where they start out having open APIs, attracting third party developers, then eating their lunch and closing the APIs. No one in this sub-thread is saying that's desirable. But also nothing you can do can stop them from using something other than JSON.
You are assuming websites offer an end user api via json but that's just a side effect, an implementation detail.