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This could be very useful for de-shittifying the web. Imagine a P2P network where Producers go out to enshittified websites (news sites with obnoxious JS and au
by gosub100 3y ago
This could be very useful for de-shittifying the web. Imagine a P2P network where Producers go out to enshittified websites (news sites with obnoxious JS and autoplay videos, malware, "subscribe/GDPR" popups, ads) and render HTML1.0 versions of the sites (that could then have further ad-blocking or filters applied to them, like Reader Mode, but taken further). Consumers would browse the same sites, but the add-on would redirect (and perhaps request) to the de-shittified version.
Perhaps people in poorer countries could be motivated to browse the sites, look at ads, and produce the content for a small fee. If a Consumer requests a link that isn't rendered yet (or lately) it could send a signal via P2P saying "someone wants to look at the CNN Sports page" and then a Producer could render it for them. Alternatively, a robot (that manually moves the mouse and clicks links) could do it, from a VM that regularly gets restored from snapshots.
From what I understand, with encrypted DNS and Google's "web DRM" (can't think of the name right now), ad-blockers are going to be snuffed out relatively quickly, so it's important to work on countermeasures. A nice byproduct of this would be a P2P "web archive" similar to archive.org, snapshotting major-trafficked sites day-by-day.