The web has been engineered to a complexity level so grossly obscene that it is all but impossible for independent developers to produce fully independent web browsers anymore. You would need hundreds of millions of dollars in capital and strong leadership to produce a browser that would be successful in today's world.
I could dedicate the rest of my life working 100 hours a week on a browser, and I would die before I had something that could compete with browsers of 2017, let alone of the browsers far into the future at my demise. The standards grow in complexity faster than a small team of developers could possibly keep up with.
The best we have are attempts at forks of major browser engines, which will never gain any serious traction to have any power over the direction of web standards.
If people want to do something about it, they need to fork the web itself. HTTP, TLS, HTML, CSS, JS ... the entire stack needs to be scrapped and replaced with something sensible with a focus on simplicity. If a single highly talented developer working full-time can't implement a reasonable browser within a year, then the standard is too complex. This will of course never happen.
And so, on the subject of DRM, we've officially lost the war today. And combined with the impending loss of net neutrality, brace yourselves everyone: it's only going to get worse from here on out.
I could dedicate the rest of my life working 100 hours a week on a browser, and I would die before I had something that could compete with browsers of 2017, let alone of the browsers far into the future at my demise. The standards grow in complexity faster than a small team of developers could possibly keep up with.
The best we have are attempts at forks of major browser engines, which will never gain any serious traction to have any power over the direction of web standards.
If people want to do something about it, they need to fork the web itself. HTTP, TLS, HTML, CSS, JS ... the entire stack needs to be scrapped and replaced with something sensible with a focus on simplicity. If a single highly talented developer working full-time can't implement a reasonable browser within a year, then the standard is too complex. This will of course never happen.
And so, on the subject of DRM, we've officially lost the war today. And combined with the impending loss of net neutrality, brace yourselves everyone: it's only going to get worse from here on out.