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If it was just for security reasons, they could sponsor FOSS development on the implementation.

I am of the opinion that it is to remove one of the last ways to build web applications that don't have advertising and tracking injected into them.

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I get the impression they are ripping it out because they don't want to sponsor the FOSS volunteer working on it or deal w/ maintaining it themselves. The tracking/advertising take doesn't hold much water for me as adding those things to the page is something developers and companies choose to do. You could just as easily inject a tracking script tag or pixel or whatever via XSLT during transformation if you wanted.

> I am of the opinion that it is to remove one of the last ways to build web applications that don't have advertising and tracking injected into them.

Er, how so? What stops you from doing so in HTML/JS/CSS ?

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