You are talking about the Java Browser Plugin, not Java. This is like complaining about Linux because Gimp has two many windows. Working with the Java Browser Plugin is indeed terrible now, becase it is legacy, no modern browser supports it. I know, I have a vm with an old OS and an old browser to control a few 10+ year old devices. (On the other hand browsers do try to reinvent the Java Virtual Machine and Java byte codes, see WebAssembly. And again, Java Virtual Machine is not linked to the Java programming language at all).

Just think about a public forum with 50 000 registered users. That will not do 25m mentioned in the law., but instead actually it will not do more than 10.000. That is barely profitable, especially if it needs moderation. It cannot be smaller.

Practically any profitable i.e.sustainable web site which does not sell goods or services but serves users who use the site for free must have much more than 50 000 users.

So this law applies to even the smallest non-local businesses.

For the eyes it is better if there are no big differences in the lighting of different areas, because the eyes can only adjust to an average. Therefore a dark background on sunny day is not a good idea. The dark mode could have a place - if you were working in dark. But if you work in dark, than you should fix your lighting first of all. After all a display is a lighting itself directly in your face, even if you turn it down to the minimum.

Have you seen the video you referred at all? It is not particularly china friendly. Well, I guess you have not lived in an authoritarian regime or in a dictatorship. I was there. Or maybe you do live there, and you are just doing your propaganda work now.

It does not matter why we or anybody else have to use JavaScript a lot. You can bet by the way, that after these experiences this is the last language/environment we would chose voluntarily. My point is that if we have this experience, than there are a hundred thousand web site who uses only one tenth of javascript but meet the same version dependent bugs. By the way, browsers have bugs not only in javascript but in css too.

If you prefer the Chinese government instead of Facebook, than you are a moron. Corporations may abuse your data for their profit, the chinese dictatorship will abuse you for their profit.

We are using a huge amount of javascript, and working around browser bugs is a regular activity. About every third minor update of a browser has a new bug/regression which affects us. In these cases only the user agent string helps. A fix for a few Chrome versions for example breaks both older and newer Chrome versions, and maybe the same regression come back a year later. However, I also understand Vivaldi developers. It is a shame of web developers, especially of popular web sites, if they abuse the user agent.

We have unusually complex one page webapps. If I do not count the various browser bugs which appear regularly (and reapper again, seriously), then the remaining 90% of mysterious bugs user experiencing are caused by ad-blockers and virus killers, and in a less extend other browser extensions.

We have to write various checks to test if the code running in the browser is actually our Javascript code, or one of these miscreants modified the code (and break it).

The hole is sometimes closed now (it varies between years and within a year too), but it is still far thinner than it was, as I experience every summer.

Fingerprinting is useful for moderation and in the fightagainst trolls, cheaters etc. It is about identifying a computer, not about identifying a person. If they make moderation harder, then there will be less place to socialize on the web. Moreover, income from untargetted ads is only 1/3 - 1/10 of the income for targetted ads. The reduced income results in less service. People could easily pay to replace ad income, but microtransactions haven't taken off for 20 years. They cannot win either, at most they make the monopolies of the internet stronger. It seems the developer community around the web shoot itself in the foot.

But you have no 1 million people interacting with you. And by the way, from my experience, while 0.01 percent is a bit high, but only a bit. 0.001 or 0.0001 is a better estimate for serious threats.

Unfortunately not that simple. Almost all people choose an ad supported service over a paywalled. They tried microtransactions where you pay a really small amount, like 0.1 cents, but people don't want to pay at all, instead they prefer ads.

I agree with you, but unfortunately 99% of people choose ad supported service and then try to block ads instead of paying.

I do believe missing ECC support is an artifical restriction at Intel. AMD has ECC. One of the reasons I always buy AMD, that I can be sure that all processor features of that generation is enabled in even their cheapest processor. No surprises. Btw. modern processors include most/all of the functionality of the north bridge. Regarding performance, for the same cost AMD usually provides more performance, specifically similar single threaded performance and better multi-threaded performance.