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I'm hoping we see a move to allow the rendering of the webpage to be entirely up to the users. Just provide the data, and let me decide how I want to interact
by gAI 3y ago
I'm hoping we see a move to allow the rendering of the webpage to be entirely up to the users. Just provide the data, and let me decide how I want to interact with it. But that would ruin SEO and Ads, so we're gonna get in a buncha legal battles about web scrapers instead.
- Waterluvian 3y ago“Reader Mode” is a successful example. I’m actually shocked it exists because of how it impedes the things you mention.
- zokier 3y agoBut reader mode is mostly bunch of heuristics with tons of ad-hoc special cases and hacks instead of relying documents to be well-structured. So in many ways it is the opposite of successful example. https://github.com/mozilla/readability/blob/main/Readability.js#L98 https://github.com/mozilla/readability/blob/main/Readability...
- Waterluvian 3y agoOh true. Which kind of demonstrates the penalty for abusing HTML so much that it’s no-longer semantically reliable.
- zokier 3y agoHow long can it be called abuse if it is how html has been used like almost entirety of its lifetime.
- joshspankit 3y agoBy then AI will have disrupted the ad-revenue model so fingers crossed we get the clean data!