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Stupid stuff like this is the reason I use Ublock-Origin. Before that I used to use Umatrix when it was maintained. I blocked just about everything and had countless rules for my most visited websites so idiotic stuff wouldn't load.
Nowaways, I block 3rd party frames and call it a day. If my connection is slow I can block pictures, javascript and 3rd party bloat to reduce bandwidth and browse basic sites.
There was a scene in Law & Order decades ago where Jerry Orbach's character, investigating a murder scene, makes the wry comment, "Oh, suspenders and a belt" after noting a diaphragm and condom wrapper on the nightstand.
uBO is great, but it's not a complete prophylactic. NoScript also ends endless ads loading. A pihole can handle things at the network level. There are numerous ways to maintain internet hygiene that most people don't realize exist, because it's not profitable to give people control over their own devices, so those of us on Firefox (or a derivative) and several extensions are characterized as "crooks who want to steal the internet."
As with politicians, each accusation is an admission.
Ad companies: "I want to use the vast majority of the data allocation you pay for."
Me: "No."
Ad companies: "THIEF!!!!!!!!!!!!"
ubo has a button to disable javascript. For news pages that tends to be the easiest way to make them barely usable.
And if you have a limited data mobile plan, they are just eating your money
All mobile plans are limited, at least in the U.S. Even "unlimited" plans will revert to dial-up speeds once advertisers have stolen enough of your data.
Even with ublock-origin with quite extensive blocking rules and browsers enhanced tracking protection the ny times website was 10 MB to load.
I want a browser that is text only like lynx but with tabs and extensions. The modern web is fucking awful and its lazy slop and will only get worse.
I dont need 400mb of fonts and a 200mb background photo of someone laughing at nothing looking into blank space. I want the fucking info.
That's why some people created the Gemini protocol... And then came Google and used the same fucking name for it's bloody AI.
I love gemini proto, i wish more stuff was on it. Fuck google :/
I enjoy using elinks but it might be too restrictive still.
Just use Lynx/Links in your console?
I do but i want more from it
Your console has tabs if it's a modern console.
Yeah i do use tmux as well, i can make it happen but making it pop a new tab from a link for instance wont work
We have gotten so bloated and lazy.
Some rich idiot who has never heard of limits buys in and then says who needs optimization, everyone has all the resources they do, dont they? And if thy dont they should buy in so that more money is spent.
Finite is such an impossible thought for some people the same way infinite is.
I tried out replit to just make a web page showing a nice indexed list of static files. Whatever it came out with was 300MB
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