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Chrome 90 goes HTTPS by default while Firefox injects substitute scripts to foil tracking tech

ThatOne Silver badge

Re: No, this is wrong

> Focus on servers all you like, but some people will only change if you make them.

Still, you focus solely on Internet use, which, while predominant, isn't the only use of browsers.

Think for instance about those increasingly present web GUIs (not necessarily Internet-connected or even on a network). What about those million-dollar software/machine tools, commercially EoL for years, yet able to keep working for decades? Millions of workshops and labs around the world have them. Note those devices/software are used by highly skilled technicians who are not computer savvy (yes, it's possible), so their use has to stay simple: They aren't paid to wrangle with the computer, but to use it to do their job.

It's much akin to those companies still running WinXP computers because they just can't afford to throw away a perfectly working multi-million machine tool. From an IT specialist's point of view it's a no-no, but remember it is the "IT specialist" who put them in that situation in the first place... You can't punish people for your own failures. Or at least you shouldn't.

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