If we were able to ignore Apple's unconscionably low level of investment in WebKit, I think we'd all be upset that com.facebook.* is the new IE 6-11 Yes, Android's WebView can be used to make a browser. No, it is not functional without a *lot* of work: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebView …
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For many publishers, this is 20-30% of traffic (which is down for previous years thanks to ranking changes). That's 20-30% of traffic that doesn't handle Push Notifications or PWA install or WebAuthN or pretty much anything in the Fugu roadmap:https://developers.google.com/web/updates/capabilities …
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What you, as a web developer, should understand about this situation is that Facebook is breaking the web for 20-30% of your traffic *because you aren't demanding they do better*.
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Facebook gets away with this because you aren't making noise about it. Could they staff a real browser team? Chose to use CCT or delegate to the user's default (real) browser? Sure. All of that is meeting or 5 away for the folks who go to work every day in Menlo Park.
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Instead, they're hiding out in the shadiest, dankest corner of browser fuckery: subtly and pervasively undermining user choice about privacy and security while at the same time failing to compete *as a browser* when, in reality, they are the second most popular browser on Android
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Facebook broke the web because it helped them. You didn't push back. Now the web is broken for most users, and, in particular, first-time-internet users. What should we do about it? What will *you* do about it?
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There are so many tech journalists who can't see past Apple's monopoly on Shit Rich People Do, then write think pieces about "what if FB made a browser?" Hot tip from a browser engineer: FB makes a *wildly successful* browser, and it *sucks*
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