I think the difference is market share. Chrome is at an estimate 60-70% of all worldwide browsing. On desktop, it is over 70%. As a result, most developers (the

I think the difference is market share. Chrome is at an estimate 60-70% of all worldwide browsing. On desktop, it is over 70%. As a result, most developers (the primary audience of Hacker News) use Chrome as their primary browser so they tend to see what their users do. Safari has a fraction of that; 15% overall and 5% on desktop. The truth is that this is being discussed with Google because it affects the vast majority of users whereas previous changes affected few (and even fewer in the Hacker News core audience)