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It's a threat to http & services everywhere to take a simple static piece of content & words & insist that access must come with tracking far and wide by hundre
by rektide 5y ago
It's a threat to http & services everywhere to take a simple static piece of content & words & insist that access must come with tracking far and wide by hundreds and hundreds of parties.
The alternative to ad blockers are alternate transport mediums, is users sending raw static html bundles to each other directly.
It sucks that we rely so heavily on this hostile monetization model. Agreed that sites have a right to not serve to folks who disable trackers. Yet... outlawing user agency, denying the web's nature as a medium for the user, that we have power over- that top down authoritarianism, is, however, completely bunk & stupid.
The medium is malleable & that's such a huge feature versus the rest of computing. The Internet Is For End Users (rfc8890)[1] and the web is the most positive living breathing technology on the planet we have towards this end.
Using the heavy dumb fist of the law to bludgeon the web into being a much lesser medium, into stiff rigidity that is apathetic to the user is such a stupid act for/by suckers. Absolutely 0% sense or morality in forcing top down desires onto the web, denying the user agency: this medium is a 2 way street and that's it's most hopeful, humanistic, positive aspect, so starkly visible in contrast to all the other shitty controlled proprietary unflexible experiences we are forced into unwillingly in the rest of computing.
[1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8890.html https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8890.html