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Main problem is that the web is amassing complexity everyday, without ever shedding any of it.
So? Everything in life is like this. Yesterday will always be easier than tomorrow.
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I don't particularly see a new large player come in the browser space, though. Creating a browser from scratch is a huge untertaking and the fact that everyone except Google, Mozilla, and Apply have given up is testament to that. Edge (Legacy) was a decent browser, but keeping up even with still missing Web APIs proved too expensive (alongside fixing bugs). Safari may be in the same pickle these days with apparently…
I don't think anyone saw Chrome coming until it blew up nearly overnight, if memory serves.
https://web.archive.org/web/20150611210558/https://www.bloom...
It didn't blow up overnight, it was more like 3-4 years, but it was meteoric compared to what we were used to
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The point is that Google is managing their dominance properly, only really held off from >90% dominance by Apple's WebKit rule for iOS App Store apps.
You mean like disabling important functionality required by uBlock and other ad-blockers? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/googles-manifest-v3-st...
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Why? How present was covid in the US, UK, Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand ("the anglosphere") in March 2022? It was still precautionary "Let's see if we stop it getting in" thoughts in those countries at those times. Large numbers of cases were still mostly in Italy and China at that stage. And China had only recognised it as a pandemic two months earlier, so I don't see any real complaint to be had of classi…