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It is the same as when javascript was used to mine cryptocurrency before web browsers blocked it, exploiting other users computers for unfair gain.

They should be banned from all app stores and added to anti virus definitions. Many smaller sites have already shutdown due to being DDOSed. Even Wikipedia gets attacked by them.

I no longer consider IPv4 to be part of the real internet anymore, just a source of legacy tech debt.

It's been happening on most Saturday's since March. The next milestone is when the weekly low is above 50% so we can put more pressure on the likes of Github and Virgin Media to upgrade.

Saying "The X moment" sounds like an XKCD comic headline.

It's just a webkit wrapper, not a new engine like Servo and Ladybird.

People are just piping Special:Random into their browser and submitting to hacker news to get free karma.

AOL Time Warner was the peak of the original dot com bubble.

Achieving AGI will be more than just passing all benchmarks, it has to account for the unknown problems too.

Yet Cloudflare relies on bugs in browsers to "verify" you.

I've been following Wikipedia almost since it began, the stated reason is not matching the actual reason, They've wanted Larry Gone for years, even Jimmy will very be betrayed eventually. Unfortunately the real aftermath won't be known until many more get banned.

This is now the end of Wikipedia for me, it's only a matter of time before the rest of the admins try to split the wiki into endless forks.

I didn't have a PDA but surfed the web on a WAP phone and a PSP.

The real milestone is when it's over 50% all the time.

There was also the various attempts at TV web browsers back in the CRT era and also that some modern smart TVs ship an outdated Chromium build that doesn't work right.

IP allocations are inaccurate due to all the VPNs, (CG)NATs and proxies spoofing everything now, the whole internet is tangled up like weeds.

Might as well say "Adobe, please ship an official creative suite for Linux", and will probably fall on the same deaf ears.

Stop linking to malware sites please.

It could be said vibe coded competitors to any proprietary software. If everything proprietary was "forced open" by AI what would be the economic effects?

I just hope they don't start ignoring human created bug reports, as there are still many that haven't been fixed for years.

The trouble is that Mozilla has admitted they can't survive without Google's revenue. You are basically using Google by proxy unless you use a truly independent browser engine of they get blocked by Cloudflare for not having enough fingerprinting tech.

Firefox and Safari used to have RSS built in, but removed.

Might become more interesting if the Android powered laptop rumors are true.

The fact that mobile devices are now mandatory to prove "humanness" means that Google no longer trusts desktop/open platforms anymore.

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This all looks like game theory, the more people delay the more likely a compromise will slip through. The same reason why I don't use LTS/ESR releases either.

Copilot has been reduced to "Internet Explorer" status, where it is the "AI to download another AI".

Will this change AFD discussions over the commonly cited WP:NOTNEWS? Also Wikimedia has too many small wiki sister projects that are mostly being overrun with vandalism as there are not enough editors to monitor it, especially with AI bots making it trivial to make thousands of edits.

There is no pure browser anymore. The little red hen of Google funds everything, and forks like Waterfox just change a few parts of the UI but still rely on the upstream for all actual browser code. Even Mozilla was bootstrapped by AOL-Time Warner Back in the day. If you look at Ladybird they already have lots of ad companies funding it as well and will demand its enshittification if it gets popular.

I use it, and if you don't like the point of view then make your own AI encyclopedia. I'm fed up of Wikipedia, it's no longer the encyclopedia that anyone can edit since all controversial articles are BLUELOCKed to people who have to make 500 edits outside of their field of interest before they can actually contribute, Wikipedia is doing the same gate keeping that Britannica did. Wikipedia keeps telling established academics and celebrities they are not notable and if you say otherwise they shout COI. Wikipedia needs competition, and they can't keep relying on the gravy train of donations anymore.