Web browsers need to stop. Enough is enough
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Web browsers need to stop. Enough is enough
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Re: Web browsers need to stop. Enough is enough
#2> Mozilla just fired everyone relevant to focus on crap no one asked for like Pocket, and fad nonsense like a paid VPN service and virtual reality tech.
Not disagreeing with the rest of this, but I love Pocket.
Re: Web browsers need to stop. Enough is enough
#3Just curious, why the author thinks that Safari is a joke?
Re: Web browsers need to stop. Enough is enough
#4> Enough is enough.
What I don't like about this post is too much emotion, not much action.
> If you’re a Google engineer who is still working on AMP, you are a disgrace to your field.
Really? Career shaming? That's very low of the author to do. Why are they a disgrace?
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#5It's undeniable that someday chrome will end, and when it dies several Manhattan projects worth of work will die with it, with very few positive side effects besides V8.
But hey I guess serving ads is really important?
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#6The argument that browsers should stop trying to become an OS on top of the OS (e.g. webUSB) deserves better than this overly emotional rant.
The browser that has been holding the line in this respect, Safari, is dismissed without explanation.
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#7> Mozilla just fired everyone relevant to focus on crap no one asked for like Pocket, and fad nonsense like a paid VPN service and virtual reality tech. Not disagreeing with the rest of this, but I love Pocket.
I hate that something which only exists to data mine, or serve ads is enabled (by default) in my web browser.
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#8> Enough is enough. What I don't like about this post is too much emotion, not much action. > If you’re a Google engineer who is still working on AMP, you are a disgrace to your field. Really? Career shaming? That's very low of the author to do. Why are they a disgrace?
I assumed it came from a previous essay. Asserting that engineers should take responsibility for their actions in spite of their job. If your employer is doing something immoral or wrong, and you don't do something. You're part of the problem, and share in their guilt.
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#9Mozilla fired the XR team.
Re: Web browsers need to stop. Enough is enough
#10> Enough is enough. What I don't like about this post is too much emotion, not much action. > If you’re a Google engineer who is still working on AMP, you are a disgrace to your field. Really? Career shaming? That's very low of the author to do. Why are they a disgrace?
Someone actively sits down and codes all the things that make the world a worse place, and they often do it after and despite all of the arguments for why it is bad; maybe you disagree that AMP is a problem--I, honestly, haven't made a decision there yet--but to be very blunt about it: we tend to attribute too many things to organizations and companies when there should be a list of very concrete names of engineers working at companies like Apple or Google that actively continue to work on technologies like DRM to lock people out of devices and tracking to centralize data... and we should remember it was only due to their willingness to work on these projects that these projects get done.