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It turned into that (more than) a decade ago. I was still browsing the web with links2 and a tiny text mode browser (similar to w3m) of my own writing until ar
by foxfluff 5y ago
It turned into that (more than) a decade ago.
I was still browsing the web with links2 and a tiny text mode browser (similar to w3m) of my own writing until around the time google said "let's kill IE6." Shortly after that, the web at large started becoming unusable with simple browsers. It was still reasonably usable with script blocking, but that ship sailed too, and the vast majority of sites now absolutely require some scripts before you can see the text and images or navigate at all.
- fouc 5y agoSometimes I wonder if some sort of legislation could fix this trend of abstracting users away from the web (and from software, and from hardware). Beyond just "the right to repair" we also need "the right to access the web", and "the right to run old versions of software and OSes", and so on.