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> ... weird chromium only behaviors that websites rely on these days to do things (and egregiously so if they detect an agent remotely resembling chrome). This

• peakaboo 5y ago
  Plenty of people said this would happen when chrome started dominating, but since people refused to switch browsers, here we are.
  • gjvc 5y ago
    this guy said it best https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYT2se94eU0&t=1414s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYT2se94eU0&t=1414s
• parhamn 5y ago
  oh man. I need to find some time to write about how bad it is. The gnarliness spans the whole stack. From weird java-applet like API escalation behavior if chrome is detected (e.g. Google properties feature gate a ton around this) to how there is not even a clear way to get a DRM license for a custom browser without waiting for Google indefinitely [1]. Here's a challenge: fire up a chromium fork and get it to run a relaxed DRM website like Netflix. If you get that far now try loading HBOMax with their fingerprinting/DRM protection on top. I'm not even sure it'd be possible in FF (at least without some DRM piggy backing if there isn't one). [1] https://blog.samuelmaddock.com/posts/google-widevine-blocked-my-browser/ https://blog.samuelmaddock.com/posts/google-widevine-blocked...
• piva00 5y ago
  Yup, as someone who worked on fixing issues with IE5/IE6/IE7 behaviours I definitely feel the slow burning fire of Chrome repeating that whole saga once again. And probably in a much more painful way given the explosive growth of the internet and browsers since the early 2000s (I started working with web dev around 2005).