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WebSockets and WebRTC are two very different protocols and have very different use cases.

WebSockets is an extension to a HTTP request that permits a bi-directional, persistent link between a client and server. You can exchange chunked messages, reliably and in-order using TCP. Once the WebSocket is established, you have free reign over what datastream is sent.

WebRTC is an extension of RTP (a UDP based protocol) that adds a layer of safety (to both users and to network infrastructure). The key requirement for "real-time" communications mandates that reliable and in-order delivery must be sacrificed in favour of getting low-latency data transfers.

Another benefit of WebRTC is that browser-side javascript has no control over the exact datagram being sent over the wire (called RTCWeb, all WebRTC communication is encrypted between peers using SRTP). This eliminates a whole class of UDP based attacks. The client (or intermediate proxies) must not be able to send a specially crafted UDP packet to arbitrary hosts and trigger a distributed reflection attack.

Having said that, WebRTC can be used to transport arbitrary data, you just can't send an arbitrary packet.