Moonchild, the lead developer of the Pale Moon browser writes:
"Dear Web Developer(s),
While, as a software developer ourselves, we understand very well that new features are exciting to use and integrate into your work, we ask that you please consider not adopting Google WebComponents in your designs. This is especially important if you are a web developer creating frameworks for websites to use.
With Google WebComponents here we mean the use of CustomElements and Shadow DOM, especially when used in combination, and in dynamically created document structures (e.g. using module loading/unloading and/or slotted elements).Why is this important?
For several reasons, but primarily because it completely goes against the traditional structure of the web being an open and accessible place that isn't inherently locked down to opaque structures or a single client. WebComponents used "in full" (i.e. dynamically) inherently creates complex web page structures that cannot be saved, archived or even displayed outside of the designated targeted browsers (primarily Google Chrome).
One could even say that this is setting the web up for becoming fully content-controlled."
https://about.google/: "Our mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful"
Useful to... whom?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 20 2020, @10:15PM (2 children)
I loved reading usenet especially when google made a web front end for it (google groups). Unfortunately that eventually turned it into an utter spam shite fest that killed it. I've not gone there for years. If someone knows how to get usenet through a web portal please tell!
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Saturday March 21 2020, @12:36AM
I used to access it through my ISPs Usenet feed using the KDE news reader. It was so easy to just download the latest posts in a bunch of groups at once, then read them without having to hit the server again.
And you could set your cache to not expire, so you'd have everything offline.
But once it became accessible via web browsers it was only a matter of time ...
SoylentNews is social media. Says so right in the slogan. Soylentnews is people, not tech.
(Score: 4, Touché) by shortscreen on Saturday March 21 2020, @04:54AM
Asking for a web portal to read USENET is like asking for an automobile that shits in the street.