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There's a reason my title on github is "Code Exorcist"

And orders of magnitude worse than just firefox.

And that's easy to do right now.

But that's permanent, unfixable, and potentially ever-increasing tech debt they are taking on.

How easy will it be to do when it's an old feature?

Oh great. Another place on the web where my usage of it will simply feed some new language model.

Bold claim for a chromium-based browser.

Nope. I got nothing.

That's not even the biggest level of "we told you this would happen."

They pulled this shit previously with other standards (WebHID). Where they proposed a terrible standard, and then implemented it ignoring all feedback. Only last time it played out over months, and this time... weeks?

Sweet jesus.

I think it's going to have a slow death.

Right now it's going through it's "Lady gaga phase", doing more and more ridiculous things. Maybe this is the equivalent of a meat dress.

Eventually people will grow tired of the drama. Either it is a good product at the end (Lady Gaga is a pretty bloody great singer) or it'll be dead.

They stopped the dual support of both SMS and private messages (for "UX" reasons).

I've used it like 3 times since then, but to be fair, I have used it.

Somewhere between Normie and Tech conservative?

Real bummer that Signal decided to shit the bed.

There's literally a comment from an Google engineer, about WebHID saying that they had engineers "motivated to execute on" as part of their reasoning for telling others to go fuck themselves.

If you have a better plan, let me know.

Otherwise you can roll over and let the internet die and ill do what i can.

The engineers are not blame free, and can do super shady shit too. For example, the issues with the WebHID "broswer" APIs.

Their engineers are super fucking shady too. For example, the issies with the WebHID "browser" APIs

Then don't let Chrome be a super majority of users.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

Google is already moving to kill Mozilla. Its just a matter of it we let it go quietly into the night.

By paying Mozilla a big fat check to set the default search engine to Bing.

So your answer to "Google is evil use another browser" is... if we all swap to Firefox google will kill it?

Google is keeping Firefox alive because 5% of all web users using Google search by default is pretty useful for them.

If you want to avoid that, simply use firefox and set your search to DuckDuckGo/Bing. If Google drops them, Microsoft have already shown a want to step up into that position.

V3 manifest got too much bad press so they had to hinder it's ability to gimp ad block.

So now their trying another approach, this time they will probably develop and push this proposal out, and have multiple adopters before anyone can do anything about it. See also: WebHID.

Interest rates are rising up globally, to fight global inflation, and the general feeling of a recession.

This is having several impacts in several ways. Mostly it comes down to VC (venture capital) and lending money being harder to get.

During the good time VC's threw the net wide and invested in everything they could, knowing that only a select few would truly pay off. Well, it time for those investments to put up or shut up.

This is further having an impact on stock market and public companies. Previously potential has been seen as king. Looking for the next big thing, having lots of users etc. Now being actually profitable and surviving is going to be king.

Think of Tesla as riding this line nearly perfectly (and I'm no Elon fanboy). It rode the potential wave hard, it's stock price soared, they were the first player in electric cars. They would have an edge on everyone! Then they started plummeting as markets saw the looming interest rates. Then they posted some profitable years, and are soaring again.