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An enormous pig of a browser would be bad enough, but you also have to run the client js served by site X, because nobody else has code that's always going to be compatible with today's revision of the site X API. And if you want any behavior that isn't baked into the site X client js, you're just boned. That's why I liken this trend to the client/server days, when you were stuck with one terrible client you couldn't fix—which is what I thought the web had saved us from.


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