Really, the web just gets more and more vile towards users. Sure, highly technical folk are capable of working around this all -- but the vast majority of peop

Really, the web just gets more and more vile towards users. Sure, highly technical folk are capable of working around this all -- but the vast majority of people do not have a browser that is _working for them_: - You have little to no control over what content you are seeing. Instead, it is chosen for you. - A large number of videos (not even including movies and shows) are geographically blocked. You cannot access them. - Developers are actively trying to prevent: Saving images[1][2][3], selecting text[4][5], browsing on a mobile phone[6][7], and a whole slew of other normal user actions I don't care to cite: preventing users from going back, manipulating their browser history, asking for notification and geolocation permissions, displaying full-screen modals that block content access, scroll-jacking, click-jacking, and more. But don't worry! It's not all doom and gloom, websites like Reddit, Instagram, Facebook, banks, and more are heavily pushing their users away from the web to mobile applications where you have ZERO choice. And we're going to maintain this backwards-compatible stack of completely volatile pieces of anti-patterns until that migration to "apps" is complete, and you can no longer distinguish between the app on your phone monitoring everything you do or the site running 5 different layers of VMs and doing the same -- albeit a bit slower. [1] https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/122922/discouraging-users-from-copying-images-off-a-website https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/122922/discoura... [2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21110130/protect-image-download/48855148 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21110130/protect-image-d... [3] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35897974/how-to-prevent-image-from-copying https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35897974/how-to-prevent-... [4] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16805684/javascript-disable-text-select https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16805684/javascript-disa... [5] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8365272/disable-copying-on-a-website https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8365272/disable-copying-... [6] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10177456/how-to-disable-access-to-website-for-mobile https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10177456/how-to-disable-... [7] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22618724/how-to-disable-my-website-from-being-viewed-on-mobile-devices https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22618724/how-to-disable-...