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		cyborgx7 on March 1, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: WebAssembly consensus and end of Browser Preview This is a further step in the reduction of user control, the thing that I think made the web so successful in the first place. I suspect it will kill the web, but it will at least make it unacceptable for me. I would like to find and support the replacement as soon as possible.

pjmlp on March 1, 2017 [–]

The user never was in control, given that the majority of the logic runs on a server that the user never sees or has access to.

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