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Who else thinks that Asm.js was okay, but WebAssembly is evil and might destroy the current web landscape. It's like a trojan horse. Guess which companies are i
by frik 10y ago
Who else thinks that Asm.js was okay, but WebAssembly is evil and might destroy the current web landscape. It's like a trojan horse. Guess which companies are involved.
- eridius 10y agoWhat makes you say this?
- tannhaeuser 10y agoWASM will be used to ship browser-in-browser runtimes (WebKit+FreeType already compiles to WASM) to make ad and tracking blockers impossible.
- TomMarius 10y agoWhat's stopping you from not using such sites?
- tannhaeuser 10y agoIt's just that I find the WebAss propaganda dishonest and the discussion here naive. I personally have no problem discussing the economies of publishing, and I'm also not against ads. Tracking, OTOH, needs to go away.
- TomMarius 10y agoI don't see any propaganda, I see a very interesting, beneficial and good technology. What's naive about that? No one says it has no downsides; but some people don't consider it a downside. And again - if you don't like being tracked, there's nothing easier than not visiting these sites, because that's simply the price of visiting the page. Obfuscated JavaScript code is about as hard to read as equivalent WebAssembly code, maybe even harder, so you still have exactly the same options to find out you're being tracked.
- TomMarius 10y agoAnd I'd like to point out that tracking is very effective even with no JavaScript at all.
- eridius 10y agoWhy would that make ad and tracking blockers impossible? Those blockers usually operate by blocking resource loads, and a browser-in-browser runtime can't sidestep that, because any network access still has to go through the browser and therefore can be blocked.
- tannhaeuser 10y agoFair point. But a browser-in-browser can hide so many things from you. It can easily piggyback tracking data on regular content requests, use proxies, block basic page navigation; the possibilities are endless.
- frik 10y agoMicrosoft will finally be able to compile their C++ based Office. Now web browsers turned to Java WebStart again. It's a very dumb thing. Browsers will waste a lot of battery. Lot's of DRM and binary blobs. ASM.js was at least based on Javascript. Now Javascript already got "class" syntax thanks to Microsoft, now they hit the Web with another nail. An inside job, we may see another propriotary closed web with pay-to-view and ISP whitelisting certain services like is already reality in third world countries in Africa (and sponsored by Microsoft and Facebook).
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- Ace17 10y agowasm will no more be a trojan horse than Javascript and asm.js are. They all are web VMs ; remote code execution is the whole point!