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All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding | by Dan Fabulich | Apr, 2025 (danfabulich.medium.com)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I know this sounds bad, but maybe this is a blessing in disguise. Necessity is the mother of invention and maybe browser technology should be funded by governments instead of privately owned advertising megacorps?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is so wild. I really don't miss Flash, but since Steve killed it with the iPhone, Web development has spent more than 10 years to reinvent the ActionScript3 environment and make the entire web depend on it. And who solely prevented AS3 as a web standard from happening? Chris Wilson, Web Standards Tech Lead at Google, in his former role at browser monopolist Microsoft.

Today, every single piece of the web is designed by Google to further their business. And all these fucking Electron applications...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

I really don’t miss Flash,

Standardized "Flash", well-sandboxed and separated from the browser itself as it was, would be a good idea though.

to reinvent the ActionScript3 environment and make the entire web depend on it.

Unfortunately the separation part they "solved".

[–] namingthingsiseasy 10 points 1 day ago

I wasn't aware of that, but it's crazy. Thanks for sharing it. The sad truth is that there are probably lots of other standards that didn't make it into browsers either because Google refused to adopt them in Chrome (JPEG2000 for example, but that's a complicated ). Google had way too much influence over web standards because they had total control of the web browser.