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  • That’s not a big financial incentive.
    Microsoft will remove stuff when it actually gets in the way.
    If it’s easier to leave in and not have to touch dozens of other programs/services then they will.
    They might mark it as depreciating, and start planning a suitable replacement. They might just mark it as depreciating and kick the can down the road.
    When enough services that relied on that depreciating thing have been touched due to other updates, then they might look at actioning the depreciation.

    But if it doesn’t actively break the thing they are currently working on, the cost overhead or ripping it out is insane.
    There might be other dev teams working on features that now rely/leverage the thing marked as depreciating. But the thing getting marked as depreciating happened towards the end of the other teams new feature development cycle. At which point actually depreciating the thing might invalidate that other teams entire project.
    And maybe the rip it out, and it turns out one of their large clients (or a large amount of the user base) was relying on it.

    Addressing technical debt is always hard to justify, but it always makes a better project.
    If management doesn’t care about a better project, they will prioritise features and things that make money






  • Never used librewolf.
    But it sounds like the conveniences you want are a compromise for fingerprinting.

    Don’t let perfect stand in the way of good.
    The internet has been significantly ruined by large companies.
    There is a loop where companies with the resources to create and maintain frameworks/tooling/whatever are large enough to help define “features” for browsers.
    Browsers don’t make money, not really. To even be considered, they have to be able to run what the big companies are pushing.
    All of this makes it very easy for smaller companies to deliver better websites. Or abuse the features big companies are pushing.

    It’s like: email was awesome, then spam emails happened. Websites were accessible, then SPAs happened. Search engines were useful, the scraping/AI happened.

    I don’t know what I am trying to say.
    Other than browsers do not get the support they deserve to actually be decent unless they are backed by a company that wants to loss-lead them… Which has resulted in the web being pretty fucked






  • Yeh, I have passkeys in bitwarden.
    I get it. Once they become ubiquitous, you click “login” your password manager prompts you to select account, and you are in.
    No password that can be leaked, incorrectly stored, brute forced.
    Corporations can pre-register company service passkeys for new users.
    It’s like mTLS, except staged.