Websites requiring recent browser versions indirectly puts control into the hands of browser vendors.

If users are forced to update, they are at the mercy of browser makers Google and Mozilla. Google and Mozilla can deliver whichever malicious feature they feel like, like mandatory add-on signing with updates.

Add-on signing is the thing that caused all extensions to be remotely disabled on May 3, 2019.

Also, Microsoft can disable your computer through an update if they wanted to.

Jody Bruchon video: https://youtube.com/watch/...

soo we should make a law that enforces web developers to make everything compatible with internet explorer 1.0? is that your intention?

it's called "progress". you can love it, you can hate it, but you can not stop it.

Being connected to the internet is what requires a recent browser, so any website that primarily targets the internet and not some private intranet can assume that their users all use recent browsers.

By the way, Google and Mozilla aren't all the browser makers. I'm personally very enthusiastic about Servo, but there are other indie browser projects.

Ignoring indie puts control into the hands of the mainstream.

Don’t use chrome. Problem fixed.

@tosensei

> soo we should make a law that enforces web developers to make everything compatible with internet explorer 1.0?

No, but Chrome 74. That's the last version before they enforced the pull-to-refresh cancer upon us.

> it's called "progress". you can love it, you can hate it, but you can not stop it.

Mandatory add-on signing and pull-to-refresh and shadow DOMs are anti-progress. They rob control away from the user.

For example, shadow DOMs disable custom CSS and content inside shadow DOMs can not be downloaded as HTML, only screenshotted. It's digital right management lite. Disney's dirty little wet dream for the Internet.

@ars1 Sadly, Mozilla's hands are not clean either.

https://digdeeper.club/articles/...

@exerceo don’t use Firefox

@ars1 Admittedly, I am currently too comfortable with Firefox to make a switch.

But the next time they pull off their add-on remote kill switch trick, like they did in May 2019, I will not hesitate to jump over to LibreWolf or Brave.