alt Hacker News> tech nerds you would be surprised how many devs these days have drunk the big tech coolaid.
leetcode all the time and dream of working at google and using chrome and writing javascript.
if the tech nerds took a stand and used firefox en masse, we wouldn't have this problem.
unfortunately it is now normie season. we have to travel through these dark times.
There's still hope. I would like to draw a parallel to Microsoft Windows, with my own narrative added over.
Tech nerds mostly knew that Windows was not a good server operating system. It was also not a fantastic software development environment unless you were using a big, all-inclusive, IDE that was probably aimed specifically at developing Windows libraries and applications.
But, Windows was (and still is) the choice for normies by a WIDE margin.
The tech nerds continued to mostly ignore Windows for server stuff, and more and more ignored it for other dev stuff, too (many migrating to Macs, some to Linux, etc).
If you have a lot of users, but no developers on your platform, you're playing a dangerous game. Eventually Microsoft found a way to have Linux running in Windows. I don't know or care if that "saves" Microsoft or Windows or whatever, but I do see that as a win for the tech nerds.
All we have to do is get the tech nerds to stop using Chrome. Chrome can't survive forever if the nerds stop using Chrome, if we stop optimizing our web pages specifically for Chrome, and if we stop writing and maintaining extensions for it.
Eventually, they'll probably cave and put back more stuff to make the nerds happy, in order to bring them back to the platform and save their normie userbase. Either that or Chrome will die. Both are fine with me.