It absolutely feels like all the major web browsers have given up on being the User Agent, and instead act as the web developer's agent. I feel like I'm constantly fighting my web browser to do what I want rather than what the website wants.
Case in point which I'm fighting with at this very minute: HTTP. I want to access a site over HTTP, not HTTPS. I know it supports HTTP. I have used HTTP in the past. But my browser insists that I want HTTPS instead, despite my manually typing http://
HSTS is an abomination, directly ignoring the user's command to do what the site wants instead. As if I'm some kind of bystander of my computer, instead of the user.
Case in point which I'm fighting with at this very minute: HTTP. I want to access a site over HTTP, not HTTPS. I know it supports HTTP. I have used HTTP in the past. But my browser insists that I want HTTPS instead, despite my manually typing http://
HSTS is an abomination, directly ignoring the user's command to do what the site wants instead. As if I'm some kind of bystander of my computer, instead of the user.