Author/developer @adactio critiques the current browser landscape.

Cheers for Apple’s WebKit team for Safari 27, highlighting their decision to fix an enormous backlog of bugs and edge cases instead of just chasing new features.

Jeers for Chrome 148’s rollout of the proprietary prompt API against developer consensus—burning through years of hard-earned community goodwill.

Read “A Tale of Two Browsers” at https://adactio.com/journal/22609.

"This cannot continue": Xbox leaders lay out "hard truths" behind sagging brand

Brutal self-assessment paints a picture of a Microsoft gaming division in crisis.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/06/this-cannot-continue-xbox-leaders-lay-out-hard-truths-behind-sagging-brand/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Whatever they say about "loving the Web", the Chrome team will choose Google's ad business over everything else, web standards, user agency, security, privacy, safety, interoperability, literally anything and everything else every single time.

What anyone on that team says they love or care about or want does not change anything they're going to do.

Get Firefox.

Yes, they're thrashing. Yes, the AI stuff is bullshit nobody wants.

Get Firefox, add uBlock Origin.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2595287/ublock-origin-is-officially-dead-for-chrome-but-ad-blockers-live-on.html

Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) https://isaiprofitable.com/

#MachineSociety

The Dutch government recently launched code.overheid.nl, moving its source code from GitHub to a self-hosted Forgejo instance. The reasons? Microsoft's AI data collection, outages, and a strict requirement for digital autonomy.

You don't need a government budget to own your code and keep it out of AI training sets. You can spin up a managed Forgejo instance in seconds and take back control of your repositories.

https://jorijn.com/en/blog/leaving-github-for-forgejo/

After Gitlab's recent announcement I am strongly considering migrating Redox OS to Forgejo, a truly open source community maintained project.

https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/