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		kriro on June 15, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Internet Explorer 11 has retired and is officially... The question is why? I want to put on my tin foil hat and speculate about Korean knowledge of Edge 0-days (maybe North Korea is known to hoard those for some reason) but then again if you have edge 0-days it's probably trivial to get IE11 ones.

Mixtape on June 15, 2022 [–]

The answer is that a lot of companies and services in Korea require ActiveX, thereby making IE the de facto option for a majority of their users.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_compatibility_issues_in_...

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