The Way Things Are Going, They May Soon Stop Saying "Web Address" and Instead Say "Chrome Address"
As one surveyor see it this month:
And another (older one):
Depending on where one turns for data, Chrome and Chromium-based browsers add up to around 85% or over 90% of all Web requests, which leaves Mozilla and anything Gecko-like with just a fraction of the whole. Servo is all hype (like Rust), which has already been shelved along with other dead/dying projects in the Linux Foundation.
At what point does the World Wide Web become just a giant "webapp" for Chrome and Chromium-based browsers? Many sites that don't use JavaScript have already surrounded themselves with "webapps" due to walls like ClownFlare, which are stubborn about blocking all sorts of browsers and setups.
Chrome isn't just proprietary; it's also a DRM pusher that gravitates towards "attestation". The same thing that Android's "daddy" (Alphabet) did to Android last month Alphabet/Google (sponsor of Cheeto Lump) might do to the Web, eventually. They might even say it's about "security". Whose and why? With centralised Certificate Authorities (CAs) they're already in a position to block entire sites, internationally, at the behest of Cheeto Lump, who deems opposition to fascism no worse and no better than domestic terrorism.
The Web isn't built to be resilient any longer. It is not. Nor is it based around open Web standards anymore. It's centered around user-agent.
Use USware... or else! The back doors cannot be removed, they're a built-in "feature" (not for you, as you're presumed an untrusted enemy).
Here is the Chrome/Chromium announcement from 2008, sort of conflating browsers with operating systems. As an associate puts it, "JavaScript is a lousy, inefficient language for building a VM and a browser is a lousy, insecure container for a VM." █
