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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)
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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] 1 points 14 hours ago

All these new features exist because websites replaced every single program most people used. Web browser now have to be capable of doing anything pretty well.

Which means that simple cross-platform scripting languages with graphical abilities should have been more popularized.

I discovered tcl/tk for myself recently and it's just wonderful. A 12 years old me would be capable to learn it, if I knew about it.

What the web browser does well is a sandbox to protect you from all the tits and dicks and "pay us 42 bitcoins" messages. People are afraid of running programs from random sources, but not of visiting random webpages.

So the products they need are a simplified web browser and a sandboxed environment for running things downloaded from it. What we have. Just separated, cause the former is too important to be affected by customer requirements of the latter.