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by eyelidlessness 1949 days ago
I’d suspect this is driven more by using those sites as internal test cases. Every browser vendor since Firefox broke IE’s total domination has had a “don't break the web” priority to some extent. Using large scale real world examples to validate that has the added bonus of revealing cases where you did, in fact, break a significant (by usage) portion of the web.