And when it's normalised for firmware updates to happen via WebHID and WebUSB? Saying no will seem as fringe as browsing the web with NoScript. It's already the main way to upgrade keyboard firmware for a lot of mechanical keyboards, and it only works on Chrome. Thrilling developments for Google.

>> But of course, don't let the facts get in the way of your fanboyism for Apple.

Mate, I didn't even mention Apple. You're the one with the fixation here. Mozilla/Firefox is also deeply opposed to these anti-features.

"Oh you want to make a little start up to share recipes between friends or whatever? Aww, that's cute. Well, here's the OAuth spec and an incomplete list of footguns. I hope your grasp of elliptic curves is strong. Prison time if you fail."

The absolutely only consequence of laws that criminalise mistakes in handling of PII is to force everyone to externalise auth to the likes of Auth0. And you can bet your ass that if this ever happens, the likes of Auth0 will lobby like hell to never ever repeal or update those laws, being a vast corrupt funnel of business to them.

Congrats, you've created a new Inuit.

The oldest story in tech standards; a play in three acts:

> "We've developed Foo 2.0. It does not have feature parity with Foo 1.0, but it's more architecturally elegant in ways that are meaningless to the public. It took ten thousand man hours and was done instead of much needed upgrades to Foo 1.0."

*one year later*

> "Why is no one adopting Foo 2.0? Yes, it doesn't have feature parity with Foo 1.0, but it's frankly irresponsible of the public not to understand that 2.0 is a higher number than 1.0."

*ten years later*

> "Remember Foo? What a mess. Thank god Bar came along."

*eleven years later*

> "Announcing Bar 2.0... "

You're implying the only solution to unnecessary friction is reams of unnecessary lubricant.

Someone had to spend time building those unnecessary toolchains. Imagine if this time were spent developing cool libraries or use cases for WASM, instead of building out plumbing.

> Web Bluetooth, Web NFC

These are things that literally everyone but Google thinks are terrible ideas.

Why don't you flip the conspiracy around and ask yourself why Google, the world's largest advertising agency and data hoover, wants browsers, a category dominated by Google, to have unmediated access to ever more user, system, and local network data?