The situation is not great, it's true that for regular users Chrome is basically spyware and battery drain.

I've been waiting for Mozilla to create a better webdev console (or even copy Chrome's) and I'd move instantly.

I do use more than just Chrome (ungoogled Chromium, Edge, Firefox) and I also experience the "regular user" problem when a site is fine in Chrome but not in Firefox so I'm split between two worlds as well, and believe me - I feel your frustration.

If you control domain.com and api.domain.com, then you can create a proxy that glues the two to the same domain, getting rid of any CORS annoyances forever. And you use the tech that exists. The whole problem takes less than 1 minute to type, test, deploy and there's no need for yet another big thing invented to solve a small problem that occurs due to ignorance of self-proclaimed "developers".

The simplicity is the hard part. Fishing for compliments by "pretending" it's so trivial to you shows immaturity.

The author definitely knows what he's talking about. Perhaps it's you who's doesn't?

> We started Quill with the goal of increasing the quality of human communication

We started Quill with hope someone buys us one day.

> Together with Twitter, we will continue to pursue our original goal — to make online communication more thoughtful, and more effective, for everyone.

We sold our data to Twitter so they can make more money.

> We’d like to thank everybody who has used Quill — if you came on board during our beta, or if you just sent your first message last week. We can’t wait to show you what we’ll be working on next.

We can't wait to use the data you supplied us for free to get even more money from Twatter.

No, it isn't security through obscurity. Yes, it protects and it protects a lot.

Thank you for contributing to lack of knowledge, do keep up.

But hey, with so many impostors around - they're not capable of fathoming how golden this advice is.

Sad truth is, since "developers" don't use this, they genuinely don't understand browsers and HTTP and that's what 's dangerous.

Just like you're endorsing being sponsored and effectively stealing GitHub's bandwith? :)

> We have a duty as practitioners in the industry to call it out when we see something wrong.

It's wrong both ways. You accepted the service from GitHub, the free one where you get to open your account, host your code, share it etc.

What exactly did you expect? To be served for free for your entire lifetime?

Please, get off the moral highground. You ate the devil fruit, now you're whining about it. You should be smart enough to know that this kind of whining will get you nowhere. Just quit.

Back then, there weren't bazillion web servers out there. A patchy server was still.. patchy. And engine that solves problem X (c10k) was not created yet :)

(for whoever reads my comment, I am referring to Apache and nginx)

It doesn't mean I hate people who work on ads / ad software. It doesn't mean I want to cancel them. You, and the others in that field, don't have to justify yourself. You don't have to donate to charity to feel better about what you're doing (it doesn't mean "stop donating NOW", it's just.. do what you feel is good, like you are doing now).

There's a lot of bad going on in the world. Ads are shady-grey area. I know how to fight it and have my internet ad-free. You're ok, don't let negative comments get to you. Cheers!