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gees, even my $9 C.H.I.P supports OpenGL (ES). Talk about historyware.

Chrome maintains a GPU blacklist of drivers and GPUs that it will not run WebGL on. According to [0], even hybrid Nvidia/Intel setups are excluded. So I wouldn't be surprised if there are many people with GPUs that "support" OpenGL ES but are buggy enough to be blacklisted.

[0] https://www.khronos.org/webgl/wiki/BlacklistsAndWhitelists

Okay so you're targeting a userbase of clueless boomers who can't be bothered to upgrade or go into chrome://flags or about:config. Fine. It's time to move on. Encouraging the continued use of a stone age endpoint is regressive. Fixing this is a single search away and can be pointed out easily to said users on a landing page. We have to start using the parallel silicon present in all our devices. It even makes sense ecologically.

> Okay so you're targeting a userbase of clueless boomers who can't be bothered to upgrade or go into chrome://flags or about:config

The blacklisting is often for security reasons. I would strongly advise against browsing arbitrary websites with the blacklist overridden.

You'd be amazed how many browser users have broken unusable drivers, especially on Windows XP. Even if newer drivers are available, trying to instruct those users how to upgrade is a nonstarter. It's sad, but that's the world we live in.

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