> gives us more code to maintain, increases the binary size
In that case, don't nanny everything as a monolith. Let formats/codecs can be installed as extension/plugin.
For example I really want to webrtc to f' off, I can't. I can't even disable it for a particular site like microphone permissions. It sucks!
And to my knowledge, webrtc stack is so much more complicated than an image format, so many sites trying to grab my private IP using webrtc. yet every browser vendor are happy to support it!
In that case, don't nanny everything as a monolith. Let formats/codecs can be installed as extension/plugin.
For example I really want to webrtc to f' off, I can't. I can't even disable it for a particular site like microphone permissions. It sucks!
And to my knowledge, webrtc stack is so much more complicated than an image format, so many sites trying to grab my private IP using webrtc. yet every browser vendor are happy to support it!