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All I really want from the web is to get text, images and data and submit form data. I don't really want interactive applications which are almost but not quit
by zeveb 6y ago
All I really want from the web is to get text, images and data and submit form data. I don't really want interactive applications which are almost but not quite entirely unlike proper native apps. I just want to read interesting people and submit my own thoughts in return. I want to see pictures & text about things I want to buy, and submit my address & payment information to buy them.
The modern web delivers some of that, but only accidentally. The modern web is all about delivering potential malware to me and expecting me to run megabytes and gigabytes of this code, all in order to … display pictures and text, something the browser has been capable of for over twenty years.
- hombre_fatal 6y agoYou have control over your browser. Just disable Javascript. Some websites don't work? So what? Now compare that to the rest of software where you don't have that control and you'll see software has always been in the state of your hyperbole about pushing malware to your machine that can always be making http requests that you can't see. It's a bit sad that even technical people are only waking up to this when it comes to the web because they can finally see it with the browser's network tab, so they think it's just a web problem and begin advocating for throwing the baby out.