Vlc is basically what it is because of ffmpeg and the likes, which are... Corporate supported :p
That said ffmpeg didnt start that way, but at one point it was and vlc quickly jumped into popularity because of it and it quickly supporting new formats ( like mkv back in 2003/2004 ).
Youre not wrong, but its more complex than that xD

Finally, i can use this invention!

15% of content and then fake upvoted to heaven. Could work

Except thats not how it works here. Legal sexwork exists here, and pimps ~~is~~ are illegal.

I will be honest, i am fully against tiktok and everything it stands for. It should burn in hell.

...However, the law the us passed to ban tiktok makes no sense whatsoever. At its core its as bad as china's grasp on a lot of markets. I believe a more correct way is to ban the practices tik tok does and ban it from federal devices. However, such a law needs more effort and would also get us-based companies in trouble.
But even then, its a way better solution to the problem

In principal, the change is good for reasons you mentioned. However microsoft has :

• bypassed any default screens in the past, allowing edge to be set default without user input.
• has added very annoying screens when changing default applications asking the user multiple times if they are sure.
• has added special protocols for applications and set edge as default browser to bypass default application settings in all office applications ( outlook, teams, word, ... ).

They just can not be trusted with this, they have proven this in the past...

Its from thinking of arch, isnt it

Welcome to modern framework development!

• C# has nuget
• any nodejs based framework ( react, vue, angular, ... ) (npm)
• python ...

All of the above are chuckful of dependecies upon dependencies, and webdev stacks are the worst of them. They make it VERY hard to make software that requires any security related certification because of the dependency hell...
I swear to god, all those frameworks are designed so badly when looking at dependency hell ...

... Yet i will write c and c# code everyday haha

Its nvidia, its always a ripoff :p

The person is doing a talk about it in hamburg, germany (37c3) next week. Its on my to watch list because that sounds hella interresting.

Edit : 37c3 list of talks : https://halfnarp.events.ccc.de/#dec115da17562cebafa9ba7a150a4fc607c25c880c03593dcc8da6087c9441a4

When isnt he?

Report that to your country's privacy watchdog. That is not the law. After comfirming your identity they should remove it ( at least for eu citizens? )