I'd be much more willing to execute some binary in my browser than directly on my OS. Sure, you could do a VM or so, but a browser tab is spun up much more quic

I'd be much more willing to execute some binary in my browser than directly on my OS. Sure, you could do a VM or so, but a browser tab is spun up much more quickly. The absence of friction of just executing something quickly, and being able to share it with a single text string, is what makes this appealing to people, I reckon. I dunno why people seemingly get offended by this.