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How amazingly fortuitous we are that browsers work by executing the code in the client, so that all these features like ad blocking are possible. Imagine what t
by PlunderBunny 2y ago
How amazingly fortuitous we are that browsers work by executing the code in the client, so that all these features like ad blocking are possible. Imagine what the internet would be like if it were different (e.g. browsers did something like display a static image that was sent from the server).
- hnbear 2y agoThere are and have been browsers that work like this. Opera Mini worked like this for optimization of sites for limited cell phone bandwidth and processing years ago. You would get a pre-processed and rendered site as an image. https://www.consumersearch.com/technology/ultimate-guide-opera-mini-browser-everything-need-know https://www.consumersearch.com/technology/ultimate-guide-ope... More recently there are security solutions that do this so that all website processing is sandboxed and run outside your desktop, particularly for enterprise environments. If you have many many users who will click on all sorts of nonsense, it's better having that processed off in an ephemeral container somewhere then streamed to the desktop statically.