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by vasachi 1774 days ago
Google is planning to remove alerts entirely: https://twitter.com/Rich_Harris/status/1422930436850860033
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Direct source:

> Major browser vendors are generally aligned about wanting to move the platform away from alert() and friends, even though it will unfortunately involve some breakage.

- https://twitter.com/estark37/status/1422694855390629893

That at least doesn’t seem like any kind of near-future thing.

I just hope there’ll be some replacement, we use confirm() to prevents users from losing changes that weren’t saved (just like many other sites including fastmail and google)