Comment on Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge

• Buelldozer@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s not that bad yet. FF works on pretty much any site that’s not demonstrating some sort of bleeding edge fuckery.

  Yet. I lived through the first browser war (Netscape Navigator vs Internet Explorer) and I’d estimate we’re right about the year 2000 ish. At that time both browsers were still active and reasonably well supported but it was clear that IE was going to win and somewhere in the IE6 / IE7 (2004 / 2006) time frame is when the real fuckery started. Since Edge started using Chromium in 2018(ish) we’re basically following the same schedule from two decades ago.

  Hopefully this sort of enshittification will drive more people to use other browsers.

  Sadly this is the same thing we said back then too and we (IT & the tech community) pushed hard to get people to leave IE and adopt Chrome.

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  • Link@rentadrunk.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Don’t forget Safari. On iOS it is the only usable browser currently with everything else just being a reskin of Safari. There are a lot of iOS users.

    That is set to change but only in the European Union.

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• spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  bleeding edge fuckery

  Aka shit not compliant with web standards.

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