All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding
danfabulich.medium.com
Google pays for 80%+ of the development budget of all major web browsers, and soon, the US will force Google to stop supporting their…

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?

  • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    19 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”.