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They should just make a gentleman's agreement that the four majors will change it to name and version without any of the cruft. Every broken site will be quickly shamed into fixing their shit.

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“Every broken site” will be internal enterprise web-applications that haven’t been touched in 15 years where they’ve also lost the source code.

They can slap a proxy on the front to change it back to what they need.

That sounds like work. Which costs money.

They can just not update their browser - which is essentially doing "no work", and is free.

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