cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47871545

🌐 Many companies now block older browser versions from accessing their websites!

This follows many browser makers ending updates 4 older operating systems, leaving legacy devices unable to use web services without an OS upgrade.

This kinda reminds me of the Java website block by browsers a few years ago, just in reverse. (Revenge? ;)

Old Android versions are also increasingly blocked from accessing the Google appstore.

Truly about security or perhaps Planned Obsolescence?

Update: “old devices can only use old os > old os can only use old browser > old browser cannot use web> poor uneducated people = screwed once again!”

“Only suggesting corporate browsers, kinda like an ad.”

  • Allero@lemmy.today
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    1 day ago

    Resisting predatory capitalism and government overreach requires a wide array of skills, namely:

    • Advanced computing, Linux, and digital privacy
    • Private and resilient radio communications
    • Stitching, knitting and sewing
    • All sorts of home repairs, maintenance, carpentry, cement working
    • Agriculture and food storage techniques, proper determination of food spoilage
    • Organizing and unionizing
    • And a myriad more

    We can’t expect everyone to know everything, and we can be here to give advice in what we know best. I can inform someone that spoofing a user agent is a thing, I can help set this up, but when I repair my pants…it gets messy, I don’t know where to start searching for better solutions, and since this doesn’t happen too often, I don’t bother to learn more. Same happens for others, the other way around.