[worble]

I do not understand how this can possibly be considered. It comes down to one question: will this break websites that are in production right now?

If the answer is yes then it can't be done, simple as. I really don't care about anything else, you can't just break the web for people who are actively using it.

[spankalee]

Removing Flash, Mutation Events, and third-party cookies broke websites.

[Klonoar]

Look man, Flash was not the same thing and people need to stop bringing this up.

Flash was a third party plugin that got way out of hand. It wasn’t (necessarily) the job the browser vendors created for themselves and offered for years.

Flash was also moreso removed on a fledgling platform first that grew to be a dominant platform; it wasn’t killed off on an existing dominant platform first.

[8NNTt8z3QvLT8tp]

You've completely disregarded the other examples of breaking changes that have already been made. The open web still survives afterwards. The web isn't immutable no matter how much people might want it to be.

[Klonoar]

No, I didn't. Did you even read my comment?

I called out Flash. I could not have written a more straightforward note about how their comment was set up. Nothing I said indicated I disagree with their overall stance, just that Flash is a ridiculous thing to trot out.

[danaris]

I mean, of course they can. They're Google. What are you going to do, stop using Chrome and searching with Google and using Gmail and buying AdWords and....etc?

This is what happens when you have a monopoly.