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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by Dah00n on Saturday December 02, 2023 @09:13AM (#38498729)
IE held back the development of the WWW. That would be the spot Safari has today. What Chrome is doing is much worse, since it is strangling the web, not just holding back new features.
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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by mrtksn on Saturday December 02, 2023 @10:15AM (#38499126)
Not true at all, IE what is the most innovative browser until it wasn’t. For example They invented Ajax, One of the core technologies that made the web what it is today.
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Re:Chrome's next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower ex... by zlg_codes on Saturday December 02, 2023 @03:49PM (#38501909)
They invented ActiveX object and the accompanying XmlHttpRequest that AJAX would later morph into, and then change the X part (XML) to JSON.

While it was innovative, I would argue it's made the Web worse, given the impact of Javascript and surveillance on the Web.

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