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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

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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.

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