> Certain browsers allow YouTube to set the internal resolution of the timer to a lower value
It's wild to me that browsers expose this kind of control over my system to third party developers. I think making the browser an "application platform" was overall a mistake. Call me crazy, but I just want a browser that fetches and displays web sites.
My objection is that merely visiting a website can invoke all kinds of unexpected things happening on my computer. As a web browser user, I don’t expect it to be modifying how timers work on my system, or accessing peripherals and radios, or programming my GPU or the memory of other processes, or my location, or writing to my filesystem, or basically anything else other than what is needed to draw text and images onto a browser window.
We are in a period of late-stage capitalism, the collapse of Western democracy, and an AI takeover of humanity.
In such an environment, no one can afford to have principles.
It may also be interesting for people that browsers have a large list of domains they enable or disable certain behavior for a variety of reasons: https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/main/Source/WebCore/pa...