Stallman's warning was directed at the browser because that's where, in 2009, the trap was being sprung. It's still being sprung there.
But here's the part nobody seems to want to say out loud: the trap's been quietly migrating out of the browser. It's also leaking into our command-line utilities. To understand, let's examine the widely used program yt-dlp.
anthk•37m ago
But here's the part nobody seems to want to say out loud: the trap's been quietly migrating out of the browser. It's also leaking into our command-line utilities. To understand, let's examine the widely used program yt-dlp.