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stephenrtoday at 9:52 AM2 repliesview on HN

There's an oft repeated claim about "Modern Browsers are some of the most complex projects"

Yeah no shit, when you have browser vendors shipping features that have no place in browser, it's hardly surprising.

Why does a browser need screen sharing built in? Why does it need a vpn client?

You know there's a fucking operating system running under the browser that can run those things without worrying about how they impact on a fucking browser, right?


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Mashimotoday at 9:54 AM

> Why does a browser need screen sharing built in?

Is that maybe used for video calls?

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petcattoday at 9:54 AM

> Why does it need a vpn client?

Do think your web browser also should not have SOCKS and HTTP Proxy support? What about DNS-over-HTTPS?

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