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The web is the only credibly neutral platform humanity has. If you get rid of the web then all software that humans interact with will be controlled by one of a small handful of giant corporations which I think I can speak for nearly everyone here would be a Very Bad Thing.

No more porn. No more innovative experiments. No more kids making dumb little things to learn programming. No more freedom to set your own app policies.

The web is the only platform keeping user and dev freedom alive and it's imperative that hackers like us fight for it.

>>Sargos+(OP)
There needs to be a government regulation that forbids platform gatekeeping. If you sell a general-purpose device or make an OS for such devices, you can't insert yourself between third-party app developers and their users, simple as that. This would solve the problem you're describing.

>>grishk+m7
When that gets implemented then we can reevaluate the complexity of the web.

>>Sargos+(OP)
> The web is the only credibly neutral platform humanity has. If you get rid of the web then all software that humans interact with will be controlled by one of a small handful of giant corporations

The following things have been pushed and enabled by a single web ad agency with complete disregard to concerns and objections: WebUSB, WebBluetooth, WebSerial, WebMIDI. There are countless others.

The web hasn't been neutral for a very long time. Google believes the web is it's own playground now.