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Short of something drastic like Lynx, is there a good dumbed-down browser from a reputable source? It feels like there's no good check on site complexity. The s
by throwaway5752 8y ago
Short of something drastic like Lynx, is there a good dumbed-down browser from a reputable source? It feels like there's no good check on site complexity. The security risk, but also the absolutely embarrassing resource consumption is almost too much to bear.
- astrobe_ 8y agoYou don't realize it, but by saying this you are rejecting the modern Web (insert horror screams here). So maybe try the old passive web: Gopher.
- throwaway5752 8y agoHah, maybe a middle ground vs gopher. The GDPR mitigation from NPR (https://text.npr.org/ https://text.npr.org/) was refreshing. The amount of effort for display capabilities above and beyond moving around plain old text + some markup for layout has been totally out of proportion to the end-user value. I kind of wonder things like, "I wonder how much the memory/cpu it takes to run Slack (just on my laptop) vs total at NASA to design and managed the Apollo 11 mission". Anyway, that's OT enough. It's just that this is such a ridiculous vector that it's irritating.
- roywiggins 8y agotext.npr.org is older than the GDPR https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15342758 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15342758
- throwaway5752 8y agoThank you! I didn't know that.
- dmm 8y agoEven with these issues the main browsers are going to be the most secure because it's very easy to screw things up certificate validation. A way to prevent these sort of attacks is to use a javascript whitelist using an extension like NoScript.