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The difference between now and then is that people back then wanted bookmarks, search engines, CLIs, user preferences, user scripts, view source, right-click me
by eadmund 2y ago
The difference between now and then is that people back then wanted bookmarks, search engines, CLIs, user preferences, user scripts, view source, right-click menus, ad blockers, auto-translations, user stylesheets, assistive tools, bookmarklets, deep links and so forth. While some of us still do, the great mass of web users now just want TV on their smartphones: they want an attention-consumption device to distract them from real life.
Flash never took over because a lot of us then wanted our computers to work for us; Javascript and the read-only web are succeeding because so many now don’t mind being farmed for their attention.
- regularjack 2y agoPeople still want all those things.
- apatheticonion 2y agoI launch Chrome with a bunch of flags to disable security and have a bunch of client scripts to override websites. I'm this close from creating my own browser based on Chromium
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- lbhdc 2y agoCan you share more about your setup?
- Apocryphon 2y agoAjax, not even once
- keybored 2y agoThis is the same tale from technologists about how all the other Web users are just drooling morons who want to connect their brain stem directly to the Matrix. With the only relevance being the rose colored glasses of when the Web wasn’t (apparently) used by the Untouchables. Web technology: made either by and for tech. enthusiasts or techies who hate your guts.