So you’re telling me to stop paying my bills in protest of Google Chrome, because I’m not technically being forced to pay my bills

What a privileged life to lead, where you aren’t forced to use certain websites by (e.g.) your student loan servicer, or your utility company

HTTP is stored in the balls

The text of the LGPL actually imposes some very inconvenient restrictions around static linking:

Convey the Minimal Corresponding Source under the terms of this License, and the Corresponding Application Code in a form suitable for, and under terms that permit, the user to recombine or relink the Application with a modified version of the Linked Version to produce a modified Combined Work, in the manner specified by section 6 of the GNU GPL for conveying Corresponding Source.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.html#section4

In order to be compliant, you would have to also ship linkable object files of the proprietary application code alongside the executable.

But I don’t want third-party extensions, I want a DE that comes with a first-party system tray

And also the music streaming service you get alongside it, and seamless downloads on mobile, and background playback on mobile, and…

“Ask Me Anything About Rampart”