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When I view a Gemini document in a Gemini browser, I have inherent assurance that: - I'm looking at something I just downloaded from the URL I entered or navig
by tenebrisalietum 5y ago
When I view a Gemini document in a Gemini browser, I have inherent assurance that:
- I'm looking at something I just downloaded from the URL I entered or navigated to. If I'm really paranoid I can open it up in a text editor and not have to wade through tag soup and potiential Javascript obfuscation.
- Nothing is hiding from me anywhere, anything that was retrieved from the server is in the current document view.
- No scripting has modified the document.
- No scripting is listening to input device events and sending those to a server.
- If I tell my client to render stuff in a certain way, such as font preference, font size, how to deal with links, the Gemini document won't break.
- If the Gemini document is a big list or index of a bunch of things I want, such as pictures or other media, I can parse those links ridiculously easily with standard UNIX tools and download them when I want with a multitude of download managers. Trying to parse things like Twitter's direct image or video links is hard.
So if you want those things, Gemini is worth a learning curve, which isn't hard (download a client and start browsing).