Fuck websites that refuse to show content without JS enabled and the latest chrome browser. There's no reason that static text content needs all that BS except lazyness and apathy.
@mauve I just add websites that fail to function to my permanent blocklist. Soon, I forget that they exist as all links to them fail to load at all. For the next step, I would love to filter out messages containing links to websites that fail to load. Such tranquility.
@brandon Yeah it just sucks when some information is *only* available via this path. I'm almost tempted to purchase access to one of those scraper networks used by "AI Agents" so I can get plain text pulled from sites and skip the bloat.
@mauve I have tried to do this, but haven't managed to get anything to work yet. My two weaknesses are web sites and Android apps that are required to function in society but have no alternative implementations like Signal and Lyft. At some point we should be able to slap TUIs on top of these with an AI middleware layer to translate. These days I'm thinking forget interpreting HTML and just use something that can analyze screenshots.
