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The parent's non-specific "many moons ago" puts the date of such naivete long in the past, when Chrome was also adding a plethora of abusable APIs.

There was a kind of "if we don't expand the web platform, native apps from walled-garden app stores will take over" discourse at the time, from all browser implementors — less so from Apple, which could hedge its bets with the App Store.