>A lot of formats can be converted locally. And a lot of people (even technical ones) don't have the tools installed, the budget to buy them, or the inclinatio

>A lot of formats can be converted locally. And a lot of people (even technical ones) don't have the tools installed, the budget to buy them, or the inclination to spend time/money on a local solution when they can do it "free" in seconds elsehow To use a silly example, I can install an image converter that will go from TIFF to PNG - but which one? Why that one? What about all the alternatives? Is it in policy for my work machine? Is it a risk to my personal machine? Why go through all that effort when I can go to super-super-image-converter-online.tld and be done in 10 seconds?