It's a recent thing, many websites are doing it, not just one lazy one ;)

Also not about compatibility, not like these websites changed anything significantly.

@milagemayvary
These websites aren't even changing much afaik

HTML only would be amazing!

Linux everywhere - That would be a dream :)

Good point, however it doesn't seem right to force this stuff on people, they bought it, they own it, still companies pressuring it.

I don't believe for a second Google is doing anything for any good reason such as to stop botnets tbh

Oh no, Google is doing it for almost purely on financial reasons. There likely is an advancing technical debt problem that gets more complex as time marches on.

I don't know if Google came out & said such a thing about botnets, I had added it at the end of that toot with a 500 character limit.

I'm also assuming your average folk will move on to newer hardware W/out Google Play.

Of course you could use Fdroid but even then some apps like newpipe are dropping Android 5 support.

@milagemayvary Apple too!

Yeah many people will for sure, but:
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!

People who are a bit techy will use a plugin to change their user agent string though :)

@GhidorahX yeah definitely the best choice, but there are some use cases or laziness cases where ya don't want it, those cases getting screwed now ;)

I swear the pressure is increasing, imagine poor uneducated person not able to use the web or their device anymore...

that being said that’s a different thing than no longer supporting as in EOL.

There comes a point where it’s unrealistic. But to actually block - that is hostile. If they mean block in the correct definition that is.

@xexyl yeah I would also say it's very hostile - not like anything major changed on how websites work ;)

Guess poor people with used devices and old OS are getting screwed one more time...

oh well. It doesn’t affect me except (I suppose) on the very rare exception that I use lynx.

Even so I have had it with Apple and especially macOS (not that iOS or iPadOS aren’t bad). It bricked my M1 Max. Thankfully I had got earlier in the year the M4 Max.

This problem was in beta but they felt it was good to make it live to remain on schedule. There’s no excuse for that. I will eventually take it to their so called ‘Genius Bar’ and see if they can fix it.

they actually someone pay for fixing their laptop being bricked because of their crapware. I have AppleCare so that shouldn’t happen but it’s shameful. One person reported that they couldn’t fix it.

For the first time ever I won’t be upgrading this year. Eventually I’ll have to but there’re other things I don’t like about it even besides the horrible design that hurts my eyes.

I read that they will be restricting connecting to networks that aren’t ‘secure’ enough.

The company that thinks it’s safe to share passwords is going to decide what is secure and what is not?

That is utterly insane. They also have no place doing it anyway.

Ironically it could also prevent fixing it if someone upgrades and suddenly can’t connect.

But in general I don’t like not being at the current release. Right now though I’m not (for macOS).

in a sense blocking connecting to an ‘insecure’ network is the same thing as blocking using a website with an outdated browser.

If the website doesn’t function right that’s fine. There comes a point where you can’t expect it to work right as technology advances (though I still prefer simple website designs).

And not updating an old release after a certain time is also completely reasonable.

Blocking a user with old software is quite different though.

@jasper Old IPhones also seem to have these issues.

Hehe I also do wonder sometimes ;)

@Li Haha very possible, although some of the websites seem too basic for that ;)

yeah, I mean they could simply put a warning: "use at your own risk" instead ;)