A few months ago, I noted that Google is not your friend. You’d think everyone would know this by now but apparently lots of folks don’t. As a corollary to that truism, we also have, “Chrome is not your friend either”. That’s old news too, of course, but now we have this:
The Chrome team just landed a patch that lets sites block “View Source” _right in the middle_ of the Chrome Dev Summit.
You can’t make this stuff up. I owe my career for large part to View Source and tinkering with a webpage’s building blocks. https://t.co/dK8td4KSzL pic.twitter.com/TlR5aS3zpg
— kvz ❤️🤍💙 (@kvz) November 11, 2021
Next up, Missouri and Gov. Parson will change their education website to work only with Chrome and disable viewing the HTML. Problem Solved.
Really, there are numerous reasons to not be using Chrome and this is another. Sadly, most folks who are going to get the message have already gotten it and the rest will keep right on using this abomination.