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I find it really interesting the amount of effort everyone putting in nagging a bad thing rather than ignoring and working on alternatives. I guess everyone is doing a favor to the bad decision maker. People are attracted to negative phenomens and here you go another one, and its rewarding the op.

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Yes, it would be better to work on alternatives, and I have done some of these things (and so have some other people). However, that won't fix WWW (or Chrome or Google), it just means it is an alternative (which is still a good thing to have, though). However, sometimes they even try to (or sometimes just does as a consequence of existing specifications, rather than deliberatley trying to) prevent any alternative that is actually good.

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