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  • Pagination is still compatible with infinite scrolling, in fact it is probably already loaded in pages, they are just displayed together. Restoring current position is a bit more complicated than with separately displayed pages but still possible (though probably not when fully reloading page? IDK how it works on web).

    You are right that social media want to show you “new” stuff and thus deliberately don’t remember scroll position. However there are technical challenges here too. How do you reliably implement pagination if the order of posts can change at any moment or new posts can be added or removed in the middle of the list (which happens when they are sorted by score, or using some other more sophisticated algorithm)? You can save only the “current” post’s id, but then after restoring position the posts around it would be different because the algorithm had reodered them. The only way it can work as you expect is when there is no algorithm at all and posts are always sorted by submission time.





  • Independent browser engine developers have a say in how web standards evolve. their influence is limited of course, but they use it to keep web open. Google have long been trying to integrate more “advanced” advertisement and data collection technologies directly in web browsers (including imposing it on non-Chromium browser through “open” web standards).

    The moment Google has full control of technologies involved they will do everything in their power to make ad blockers technically impossible (or at least extremely complicated and inefficient) and data collection mandatory, integrated directly in Chromium. And they will do so in such a way that most websites will simply not work on Chromium forks with these “features” disabled, so everyone will be forced to comply.