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firefox rule (slrpnk.net)
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[–] dsilverz@thelemmy.club 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

One could also use w3m or links. All the RAM-hungry things (such as CSS3, JavaScript APIs and heavy multimedia files) will be finally gone for good.

[–] weststadtgesicht@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

*lynx (links are the things that tie the www together)

[–] cqst@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] weststadtgesicht@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 months ago

Minds are blown, thanks for the correction!

[–] ghen@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But all the ads will come back, so it's a wash

[–] dsilverz@thelemmy.club 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Considering that the vast majority of the modern ads are videos or images, they won't show up in such text-browser environments. Also, they depend on JavaScript, which isn't available through such text-browser environments.