Then is now. Projects like Anubis and OpenStreetMap explicitly don't support uncommon setups, you just don't get to use those parts of the internet. When talking to e.g. OpenStreetMap sysadmins, the reason given was that they see no other way to keep the site online and available for anyone

The web is dying at the same time as mobile OS freedoms, while important organisations such as governments and banks are moving away from browser access and towards doing everything (including 2FA in one device) on a phone