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Companies say they take privacy, security “seriously” and just look around you.

Mentioning it because it isn't as well-known as other security/privacy blockers.

[0] https://requestpolicycontinued.github.io/

[1] https://www.requestpolicy.com/

I did not call Vue a rendering engine. I stated that Ember's closest equivalent is Glimmer. I do think that statement is incorrect on it's face now that you've brought it up -- but I think that's because the closest thing would be ember's `View`, and not just Glimmer because the "View" abstraction is what Vue provides, and Ember's had `View`s long before Glimmer (they just worked slightly differently under the covers).

> The fact that it is lightweight and modular (...) does not make it worse

I did not ascribe a value judgement to Vue. I am a huge fan of Vue and use it a lot in my own projects and at previous jobs. I do not believe it's worse, but the simple fact is that Vue by itself is not comprable to Ember at all. They're different leagues of tools, Vue is a knife, Ember is a swiss army knife. Different problem domains that only sometimes overlap.

> Vue is also its own ecosystem same as Angular or Ember

Yes, Vue does have it's own ecosystem, but they are not the same as Angular or Ember.

> The ecosystem is in fact probably even bigger than any of them now

I don't agree with this. Angular 1 became the defacto frontend framework for corporations -- this spawns a LOT of ecosystem from people working on Angular everyday. Next was React, and Vue is just coming up NOW. I find it hard to believe that Vue has already gained the same amount of mind share as either Angular or React in terms of ecosystem.

Ember on the other hand has somehow managed to not land the lucrative corporation mindshare.

Giving things away for "free" is a common marketing strategy to generate leads. A lead is a qualified contact of a potential customer. This things could be of a broad range of cheap assets, e.g. ebooks, apps or even games.

I have seen a marketer buying the copyright of a ten year old textbook for a cheap price, polishing it, giving it a new shiny cover and a new title containing up to date buzzwords, and then giving it away for a "free" subscription via e-mail, and on top asking the customer kindly to come up for the shipping. I wondered why i couldn't find this book on amazon or somewhere else, but then i understood that it was re-released on the purpose of being exclusive for subscription. The cost for printing a small number of copies (500 copies) is quite low ($1-3 per book). This is a decent price for a qualified lead.

This strategy has two benefits. First, you get a qualified lead with contact info and even with a correct address. Second, some countries have laws against e-mail spam, but this laws often have loopholes. In cases that your company has a business relationship with someone, you are allowed to get in contact and advertis your other products via e-mail, on an opt-out basis. Giving "free" assets to a costumer establishes this kind of business relationship. Almost always this "free" assets are of a minor quality, for me not sufficient enough to give away my datas.

Freemium isn't free.