IE in the 2000's called, it wants it's dream back.
Between this, hobbling adblockers and performing enough monopolistic acts to warrant swift government action, I really see this more as Chrome dying than the web itself.
No oldies remember Camino? It was such a great browser!
feel free to waste your time and ask anyway!
Are you staring in the sequel to Rampart?
They were always going to do that, the squeeze is basically required if you're planning on making a public offering and become beholden to investors.
Now just imagine for a moment, the same company in the late 2000s taking a completely different path. Imagine they offered the moderators to become worker-owners and Reddit became a cooperative rather than investor owned.
Imagine how much better the world would have been, and weep for the timeline capitalism just extracted from everyone.