I understand that and agree with you regarding backwards comp, and legacy systems, it still pisses me to no end though, because it's like a continuous patching

I understand that and agree with you regarding backwards comp, and legacy systems, it still pisses me to no end though, because it's like a continuous patching of things over things, each one increasing the area of friction - at some point if this digital infrastructure is to take a central part in human systems though it will need to be pruned, re-worked and if needed broken, otherwise it will continue to get worse. And this is not even just at a systems level that I think is problematic - for those working with it, it's also with what it enables and what it doesn't. I'm not a genius but I can see many ways of solving these cookie/privacy issues and I'm sure the smart folks back at these companies (browser, ads, etc) could too, they just choose not to.