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Remember the days of "this website is optimized for Internet Explorer"?
We're back in that age with Elsevier checking for Chrome features when serving PDFs in their "PDF browser" when it could simply be a download.
```
'Unable to parse "Accept-Language" header value: "chrome://global/locale/intl.properties"'
```
And they're by far not the only ones. The only difference to back in the days: Then it was about browser market domination. Now it's about tracking and ad market domination.
Same dynamics, same bad effect on the web.
It's not like you can't say that we're in that era again because you don't see those ubiquitous 112x54 pixel anywhere.
The indicator is actually stuff like that: calls breaking, APIs not responding, layouts glitching out, scroll bars unavailable in a non-chromium browser...