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Bas Schouten

@disky00 @prettyhuman @cuchaz That's completely fair. And it's a difficult comms battle for us to fight (and this isn't my area of expertise!). When we tried not to support DRM, our users didn't go 'great! You go! Fight the awful systems!' People went: 'Wtf? We wanna watch Netflix.' And we lost tens of millions of users.

I understand if someone says 'good riddance, they didn't understand the importance of the open web...'

But in my mind, we need to be here for everyone. Somehow.

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Bas Schouten replied to Bas

@disky00 @prettyhuman @cuchaz And as you rightfully said, our challenge is to explain to people how we still offer value over alternatives. What we do for them that other browser's don't. I think you're spot on there and it isn't something we're great at.

Bas Schouten replied to Bas

@disky00 @prettyhuman @cuchaz (I'm in Europe and really need to get some sleep, so may not reply for a while. Thank you for your respectful engagement. I appreciate it.)

disky replied to Bas

@Schouten_B @prettyhuman @cuchaz Of course. it's nice to have a civil conversation. Take care.

Bas Schouten replied to disky

@disky00 @prettyhuman @cuchaz I'll happily get back to it later. And if ever I can help at least understand why we make decisions, I will try to do so :). (Even in those cases where I may not agree with them myself. :p)

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