>The prerequisites for using [Privoxy & Greasemonkey] range from full-blown programming skill... Neither Privoxy nor GreaseMonkey require actual programming kn

>The prerequisites for using [Privoxy & Greasemonkey] range from full-blown programming skill... Neither Privoxy nor GreaseMonkey require actual programming knowledge. I do not program, and I use Greasemonkey with some regularity - I use a combination of userscripts.org scripts and my own. They require a basic knowledge of specific scripting language implementations. Besides, Greasemonkey & uBlock/uMatrix both have a right-click menu entry that amounts to "hide anything like this". You're saying that 99% of the Internet's users can't handle being required to interact with the most basic front-end technologies which power the network they use every day, and which they willingly give up their private information to - thus having no ability to provide evidence for their trust or any expectation of their privacy. Frankly speaking, my mindset is that if it's not viable for them to understand it, it shouldn't be viable for them to use it. Uneducated users lead to nothing but trouble; and sure, I'll grant that I'm suggesting educating them the hard way, but I think the Web as a whole would be better off in the long run from smarter users and dumber clients. Heck, I think the whole world would be better off with smarter users and dumber clients/terminals/systems. Also, please, don't even begin to suggest that uneducated users should be directed to Gopher holes. You know as well as I do that if there's enough people going back to it, some yutz is gonna start trying to figure out how to add streaming this and scripted that to Gopher, and then Gopherspace will be ruined. And sure, on a technical level it would be a neat project to look at. But to reference Jurassic Park, a lot of very smart people have been so amazed at what they could do with the Web and the Internet as a whole, that they never really stopped to ask if they should do it.