And Google probably wanted to ban applets etc because they were negatively impacting search That doesn’t mean there weren’t good technical reasons, but that’s

And Google probably wanted to ban applets etc because they were negatively impacting search That doesn’t mean there weren’t good technical reasons, but that’s not necessarily the driver, For example, ssl is obviously good, but ssl required also raises the cost of making a new site above zero, greatly reducing search spam (a problem that costs billions otherwise).