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I wish it still were just a document viewer. Turning it into an application distribution platform has mostly ruined it.

• wingerlang 10y ago
  > has mostly ruined it For whom? The author of the post says that the only thing that matters is the end user, and I would bet my life that almost all users of browsers think it is great to be able to do "almost anything" on it. The rest is indifferent except a minority which is people who are in your category.
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  • adrianN 10y ago
    "Almost anything" has come to mean "display so many ads I need a brand new computer to have enough CPU left to see the actual content", "spy on my every behavior", and "install five kinds of malware on my system" for many users.
• qznc 10y ago
  Maybe the time will come for another document viewer. Resurrect gopher? Reuse epub? Steal from Xanadu? It should at least fix some mistakes of the web. The core challenge is to define what was a mistake and what was not. Built-in micro-payments, so we don't have to rely on Ads? This did not work out anywhere so far. Maybe with Bitcoin it is different today? Alternatively, should all information be free and everybody just pays with bandwidth? Should links be uni-directional? Or bi-directional? And can we fix link-rot then?