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altmind ◴[17 Nov 25 16:23 UTC] No.45955071[source]▶

Do you remember that chrome lost FTP support recently? The protocol was widely used and simple enough.

"Was" is the key here. FTP has been obsolete for 20 years.

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1. altmind ◴[17 Nov 25 22:33 UTC] No.45959175[source]▶

People are confusing obsolete with stable and feature complete.

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2. ErroneousBosh ◴[18 Nov 25 09:05 UTC] No.45962951[source]▶

Right, but ftp is neither of these things.

Can you describe any real-world application where ftp is the best solution for a problem anyone has right now?

Consider the impact of an internet-exposed service that allows unauthenticated clients to remotely run code as root on your server.

Google is killing the open web, part 2