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		pmarreck 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything I frankly wish the web standards group had released an API for these so they could be handled at the browser level.

wizzwizz4 7 months ago [–]

We've had multiple standards, mostly recently https://www.w3.org/TR/gpc/ . They always fail, because they're never mandatory, so surveillance capitalists just decline to implement them – or, worse, quietly sabotage them.

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