the API is called Web Environment Integrity, and it’s a way to kill ad blockers first and a Google ecosystem lock-in mechanism second, with no other practical use case I can find

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    Are they just copying the stuff Microsoft did back in the 90s to kill Netscape navigator? Someone should set up a website called Chrome is Evil à la Internet Explorer Is Evil.

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      Did setting up that website actually help?

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        so I was pretty young at the time, but that site was one of my motivating factors in trying pre-Firefox Mozilla for the first time

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        No idea. But it was funny.