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The state of the internet 2023 (media.kbin.social)
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[–] kevin@programming.dev 136 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep, you send me html, my browser can interpret it any way that I want it to. If I want to ignore all of the image and script tags, I can. I don't need Chrome or even Chromium. As Stallman says, you should know what is running on your system.

[–] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 59 points 1 year ago (4 children)

We need to go back to html and css. Using an ad blocker and noscript literally breaks webpages. I just want to read the article! You know the content ppl actually come for

[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But how is all the bloat going to get to you then? HTML with some images is equally functional and loads in a fraction of the time, because it is actually efficient. Nobody could want that could they?

[–] SomeBoyo@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 15 points 1 year ago

How the fuck are people using the internet without an adblocker?

It is pracitcally impossible to differentiate content from ads. And i was just talking about all the bloat without the ads. Thank you for sharing this, i never thought it'd be this bad.

[–] flameguy21@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's such a bizarre situation. Either you heavily limit Javascript and basically destroy all web apps or you embrace it and get laughably slow websites with walls of ads that beg you to log in to actually view the page. Like if you look into it, it's genuinely shocking how much software is a web browser running JS under the hood.

[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can see legitimate uses for java script, like popping out a menu. But it seriously needs its capabilities restricted.

[–] voidMainVoid@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

You can pop out menus with CSS.

[–] ngdev@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

needs its capabilities restricted

This is a bad take. How are you gonna do that? Force ECMA to scrap all the functionality deemed 'bad'? Wave a magic tech wand? At the end of the day JS is a tool, and like any tool it can be abused for nefarious purposes. The issue is that advertisers abuse this tool, and the sites they pay to be shown on allow it. Not because insert scripting language exists.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It just occured to me that I wonder how a text browser addresses all this