Chrome broke the web by disabling alert() and confirm() from cross-origin iframes. Users of CodePen, the widely-used code-sharing site, discovered that they were unable to use these functions in their projects. In the ensuing chaos the change was rolled back until 2022. It's a story about unloved APIs, and who owns the future of the web.

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