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I am genuinely curious, what do you think is the end game of this apparent conspiracy by browser creators to reduce the intelligence of users through simplified

• superjan 5y ago
  It is undeniably happening. One benefit is you ship the same UI for all screens. For several billion people, the power user features mostly serve to shoot themselves in the foot, and then they blame the browser manufacturer. On their phone the software either works, or it does not without explanation, in which case you need an expert, and for most people this is perceived as an improvement. Desktop software development is pushed in the same direction. Fewer people complain, and its a lot simpler than doing fine grained settings and informative error messages.
• userbinator 5y ago
  It's not "browser creators"; it's one huge company which is literally the gateway to the Internet for the majority of the population, effectively controls the web standards now, knows far more than the population thinks it knows about them, and profits off an industry whose primary goal is to convince users to buy and consume increasingly more through misinformation and misdirection.