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Taking it as far as saying that they need new features just to serve ads, wow. The fact that web technologies have become powerful enough to make using complic
by nkkollaw 10y ago
Taking it as far as saying that they need new features just to serve ads, wow.
The fact that web technologies have become powerful enough to make using complicated software a click away instead of forcing you to install a native app for every little thing..?
- Nadya 10y agoTake Twitter as an example - using older versions of Firefox. They claim that "videos are not supported in your browser" but on occasion the video begins playing before being paused. Sometimes the "what version is your browser" check takes long enough for the entire video to finish playing. The videos are obviously supported because they work! I know this because the same video that tells me "it isn't supported" will sometimes partially or completely play (so it isn't that different videos are being served differently). So why is Twitter telling me they don't work?
- nkkollaw 10y agoSorry, what's your point in relation to what we're talking about..?
- Nadya 10y ago>Taking it as far as saying that they need new features just to serve ads, wow. I'm agreeing with the GP comment - and that forcing updates on users that don't actually need to happen is for tracking/ad related purposes. Few sites need the new features and many are abused for tracking/ads - which is largely why the Battery API was removed. It wasn't being used for its intended purposes.