David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

Everyone hates it universally, yet we can't seem to do anything about it.

That's a bankruptcy declaration for any body of bureaucrats who pretend or pretend to make things better for not just citizens, but people around the world.

This is the thing that really gets me about cookie banners, too.

It's not just the EU.

It's the entire world.

You can't hide from cookie banners anywhere on this planet.

If you go to goddamn Mars on one of Elon's rockets and you try to access a webpage, you'll still see a cookie banner.

No one in the universe is safe from this nonsense.

It'll be even slower.

You'll have basically 150 second ping time.

So it'll take you 45 seconds just to get through the cookie banners from Mars.

It is.

If I was going to steel man the other side just for a half second.

People would say, well, maybe, yes, most people do sort of begrudgingly agree that Chrome is a pretty good browser.

But then they'll say the reason it got dominance was distribution.

And the reason it got distribution was because Google also controls Android and therefore can make Chrome the default browser on all these phones.

I don't buy that.

And the reason I don't buy that is because on Android, you're actually allowed to ship a different browser that has a browser engine that's not the same as Chrome, unlike on iOS, where if you want to ship a browser, Chrome, for example, ships for iOS, but it's not Chrome.

It's Safari wrapped in address.

And every single alternative browser on iOS have to use the Safari web engine.