I remember at the start of the web era... 1995-96-ish where if there was a video in a web page, it launched in a separate player. Same deal for a document.
Now, everything is embedded in the browser itself, and it's a self-created security nightmare.
Javascript.. same deal. It has a place, but more often than not it's about enabling an ad of some kind.
Most of what constitutes a modern web page is all about enabling advertising, and the complexity that makes that possible is the biggest security problem on a PC today.
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