GAFAM Mozilla Removes Theora Support, Now GNU Needs to Re-encode Videos
Weeks ago (or just over a week): GAFAM Deprecating Old Videos ("Content") by Removing the Support for Their Format for No Good Reason
From the page:
Support for Theora was removed around the time Mozilla outsourced Firefox to proprietary software and to Microsoft:
Mozilla has since then done more to help GAFAM at the expense of Free software.
Mozilla used to mean something to Free software advocates. More than 20 years ago and almost 25 years ago Mozilla was how we, the earlier GNU/Linux users, could still access many pages with remnants of Netscape support. This predated Firefox (or prior names for the same browser).
A decade later Chrome-isms were starting to take over and now everyone is expected to use Google formats for video. Under the guise of "security" they've removed support for formats many people used and even Wikipedia had long used, even by default.
This sort of "treadmill" (moving from one platform or format to another every decade or so) is highly corrosive to preservation of culture.
Mozilla is a slop company. It doesn't know what preservation of culture (or even basic knowledge) means. █