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That is the most distant definition from "necessity" i can think of.

demoscene reason d'etre is antithetical to museums. But i think this is very fitting for a time when, as you say, "we are losing more and more control over the hardware and software that we buy"

This may be a huge ego trip or pure gatekeeping, but I never wrote anything that I expected people to run, look at the pretty pixels, and be done.

You cannot be truly impressed if you don't know the effort to put that art into a tiny file or abuse the hardware in ways never seen before. If you never fired a debugger or other development/reverse engineering tool, then you missed most it had to offer. And IMHO you never connected to the artist in any way.

> It might not be obvious, but the app will have access to all your other open windows.

Fun fact, most docker hosts will allow access to all your files anyway! (specially true on docker for mac, which all the cool kids(tm) here are using). Even if you restrict container host-FS access to a source repo dir, mind rogue code changing your .git hook scripts in there or you might run code outside of the container when committing ;)

Another slightly relevant fun fact, USB is a bus. That means that any device can listen in on any other device. And USB access is given by default to some X-enabled docker (--tty something), and to most virtualbox machines (including the hidden one running the fake docker linux host on docker-for-mac), and more recently Google-Chrome. ;)

> addons can change things and break the browser.

Good. That's a feature. I install addons. It's not a site i visit with no consideration.

This is the same thinking of apple. People install random apps so let's restrict apps to the point the user cannot have a text editor on their phone! meh! This is all dumb!

Now it is impossible to have the choice to install an addon for tweaking hidden options. Everyone should live with the crap that is about:config and user.js (or only about:config, because they thought user.js too dangerous on mobile too!)

I trust an open source browser by random people, why not an open source addon that gives me the functionality i need?