It’s not that bad yet. FF works on pretty much any site that’s not demonstrating some sort of bleeding edge fuckery.

Yet. I lived through the first browser war (Netscape Navigator vs Internet Explorer) and I’d estimate we’re right about the year 2000 ish. At that time both browsers were still active and reasonably well supported but it was clear that IE was going to win and somewhere in the IE6 / IE7 (2004 / 2006) time frame is when the real fuckery started. Since Edge started using Chromium in 2018(ish) we’re basically following the same schedule from two decades ago.

Hopefully this sort of enshittification will drive more people to use other browsers.

Sadly this is the same thing we said back then too and we (IT & the tech community) pushed hard to get people to leave IE and adopt Chrome.

90% of people and corporations are either using Edge or Chrome and since there’s essentially no difference between the two they are equally bad. We’re back to a browser mono-culture, just like in the bad old days of Internet Explorer.

Couldn’t possibly be all the federal workers getting laid off.

They are certainly part of it but there’s a very long chain of organizations, many of which aren’t obvious to most people, supported by the US Federal Government. Those organizations are swiftly going into preservation mode and seeking to spend as little money as possible by laying off staff and downsizing or cancelling projects. Every one of those layoffs and project changes has negative effects downstream on other businesses, contractors, and services.

The idiots who voted for the current administration have no idea what’s coming and how badly its going to hurt them.

I’m struggling to think of a single component of a hot dog or sausage that isn’t “normal” to eat everywhere in the world except for reasons of religion and even then it depends on what meat was used to make it.