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Parasitic Companies want the ability to run anything they want, on anyone's machine, accessing all of the users personal data, as well as their competitors data

Parasitic Companies want the ability to run anything they want, on anyone's machine, accessing all of the users personal data, as well as their competitors data if they can get at it, and use it for whatever reason they want, and have the ability to secure those revenue streams by erecting wholly artificial and socially destructive barriers to their removal, such as getting accepted to represent their interests in standards bodies then twisting the standards to do what they want. An example of this is EUI addresses in IPV6 with the Mac address as part of the IP address as a revenue stream maximization method for advertisers. There was a you tube video awhile ago showing java-script able to run an operating system in a web browser as well as games inside the OS. Recently, Chrome added a task manager and user logins. Chrome is no longer a web browser, it's an operating system, and what enables an entire ecosystem of abuse is java-script. In a few years hence, someone will figure out a technology that will disable java-script from running on client machines via firewall filter. It will break a lot of websites. Let it.

Jonnax 10y ago
Each tab runs in its own thread, a page consumes CPU and RAM. I'm not sure why it's a bad thing that a web browser has a task manager. Especially since one of the powerful things about the web is that no extra software is required for debugging / development. It's totally possible today to create a filter that will scan for JS and remove it from sites with one of those man-in-the-middle corporate proxies. But it'll break pretty much every site. If you're talking about a company, that's as conductive to security as mandating weekly password changes requiring no repetition, symbols, lower + upper case and 15 characters. Users will find ways around it. Like bringing unmanaged devices to browse the internet. In terms of broken websites, corporate users don't have the influence as they did in years past. Since we're trending towards pretty much every person in more economically developed countries having smart phones. If a website doesn't work for a business's users I don't see how site owners will care. On the development of web browsers becoming an OS of their own. Sure there's work to be done to improve security. For example, fingerprinting needs to be properly mitigated [1]. The web is open. Anyone can implement a web browser. Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge are trending towards writing one webpage/app and having it run everywhere. Windows, OSX, Linux, Intel, ARM, Desktop/Laptop, Mobile/Tablet. Aren't a concern past display/formatting. [1] https://panopticlick.eff.org/ https://panopticlick.eff.org/
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Jonnax 10y ago

Each tab runs in its own thread, a page consumes CPU and RAM. I'm not sure why it's a bad thing that a web browser has a task manager. Especially since one of the powerful things about the web is that no extra software is required for debugging / development. It's totally possible today to create a filter that will scan for JS and remove it from sites with one of those man-in-the-middle corporate proxies. But it'll break pretty much every site. If you're talking about a company, that's as conductive to security as mandating weekly password changes requiring no repetition, symbols, lower + upper case and 15 characters. Users will find ways around it. Like bringing unmanaged devices to browse the internet. In terms of broken websites, corporate users don't have the influence as they did in years past. Since we're trending towards pretty much every person in more economically developed countries having smart phones. If a website doesn't work for a business's users I don't see how site owners will care. On the development of web browsers becoming an OS of their own. Sure there's work to be done to improve security. For example, fingerprinting needs to be properly mitigated [1]. The web is open. Anyone can implement a web browser. Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge are trending towards writing one webpage/app and having it run everywhere. Windows, OSX, Linux, Intel, ARM, Desktop/Laptop, Mobile/Tablet. Aren't a concern past display/formatting. [1] https://panopticlick.eff.org/ https://panopticlick.eff.org/

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