But at what cost!?

Then maybe it’s up to the maintainers to not want to be assholes?

I still don’t get how that isn’t professional and not offensive?

Let’s not forget all the new cookie banners everyone deals with now.

I don’t have experience with web sockets in godot but I do have experience in web development

I assume it’s because you are hosting the game from somewhere other than where you are trying to connect.

A look at this article should help. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Guides/CORS#examples_of_access_control_scenarios

You’ll need to send some extra headers that will allow the browser to connect to it.

I think this one? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Guides/CORS#access-control-allow-origin

I only ever set it to * and forgot about it when I have done API development.

I hope this is helpful!

Have you looked into IPFS? Sounds pretty similar of an effort.