I was still browsing the web with links2 and a tiny text mode browser (similar to w3m) of my own writing until around the time google said "let's kill IE6." Shortly after that, the web at large started becoming unusable with simple browsers. It was still reasonably usable with script blocking, but that ship sailed too, and the vast majority of sites now absolutely require some scripts before you can see the text and images or navigate at all.
Beyond just "the right to repair" we also need "the right to access the web", and "the right to run old versions of software and OSes", and so on.
> Instead of attempting to get one of [HTML/SVG/JS Canvas] to work, we implemented everything from scratch using WebGL. Our renderer is a highly-optimized tile-based engine with support for masking, blurring, dithered gradients, blend modes, nested layer opacity, and more. All rendering is done on the GPU and is fully anti-aliased. Internally our code looks a lot like a browser inside a browser; we have our own DOM, our own compositor, our own text layout engine, and we’re thinking about adding a render tree just like the one browsers use to render HTML.
For what it's worth, this isn't all that dissimilar from game development on proprietary engines, and that hasn't stopped indie game devs from experimenting. But it will be a huge problem for accessibility.
It is really sad to see what humankind is about to lose in the name of copyright and content ownership. We really could have a share everything utopia, but no, our societies are built on adversarial competition and our politicians are unwilling or simply unable to stop the unending barrage of overreaches.
For them, technology is a means to an end. Nothing more.
Users do NOT want these things, if you took the time to explain what it means, and gave them another option.
The only reason the current set of DRM malware still exists today is by artificial scarcity, and mafia-like bullying through courts. Public opinion was largely in favor of peer to peer sharing content, but that wasn’t good enough for the big boys. They wanted to be able to bring ALL other parties to their knees: cable manufacturers, display makers, computer makers, storage device makers, and of course, users. EVERYONE is now under their control.
The general public is apathetic to the issue of DRM, they certainly don’t want it. But they are not given a choice. You must have a HDCP certified computer, cable and display - otherwise no content for you.
The Soviet Union also had a similar idea... utopia can only be approached across a sea of blood, and you never arrive