> IMO we should fight to consume the modern Web and apps in ways that benefit us and not somebody else. That's kind of a self-defeating statement. The modern w

> IMO we should fight to consume the modern Web and apps in ways that benefit us and not somebody else. That's kind of a self-defeating statement. The modern web and it's requiring the end user to blindly run third party code to even get text to show on a webpage is the problem. And 'apps' on locked-down, proprietary computer devices like smart phones only makes it worse. My solution to the problem was to not start. I have never owned a smart phone that connects to a telco network. Only in the last year or two have I bought a ($15) smart phone to use over wifi with my custom 910 MHz wireless ethernet bridge between my home network and car network. But in the end I never used it since my thinkpad laptop was so much more powerful and better for getting actual work done.