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All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding | by Dan Fabulich | Apr, 2025 (danfabulich.medium.com)
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I know this sounds bad, but maybe this is a blessing in disguise. Necessity is the mother of invention and maybe browser technology should be funded by governments instead of privately owned advertising megacorps?

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[–] Cocopanda@futurology.today 20 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

That’s not how security development works. New things come up and need to be updated to protect you.

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The vast majority of it is not "security development". There are just screwing around with perfectly good software, sometimes making it worse, because they have a large staff of developers they are paying a salary to.

[–] CannedYeet@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

That's stuff comes on the regular release cycle. Chrome and Firefox are both on a release every 4 weeks.