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?

  • btaf45@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    I don’t want web browsers to be changing all the time forcing me to do updates. Software that is complete doesn’t need to be changed just for the sake of change.

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      22 hours ago

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

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        19 hours ago

        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.

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          15 hours ago

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