The Feature I Most Want in Web Browsers inessential.com

@brentsimmons This would be an awesome web. I will toss my penny into that wishing well!

Hmm. Ads rendered on the server would be harder to block, too. We might need to be careful about these wishes.

@brentsimmons I’m fairly certain it was possible to do the cookies part in Camino; one of our team members liked to browse that way. (It was not user-friendly; there was no real UI, you had to jump through hoops to allow sites, and IIRC we had to egregiously abuse the not-designed-for-actual-humans Gecko cookie API to do so, but….) The JS part maybe could have been done with CAPS, but that component was an even worse mess and got deprecated.

It’s clear that a lot of the fundamental behavior assumptions of browsers need to be rethought in light of today’s abusive behavior by surveillance capitalists—but the problem always comes in making the changes in a user-friendly/understandable way and without breaking all sorts of websites :-(

Many sites already have “server-side” ad code in a noscript tag for JS-less situations; you can usually block those easily enough with CSS or a content-blocker for the image domain. // @fgtech

@jasonekratz You can whitelist the baby! Otherwise, yes, I’m pretty happy with taking the web back to the’90s.

@adamprocter Kind of a cars vs. trucks situation. I think Brent is spot-on with the functionality; but that it should be something a power-user can turn on for themselves, e.g. "Enable Fast and Private Web Mode?" I don't do any virtual DOM (yet) but I'm sure it's in my future if I want to keep making a living building websites.

@brentsimmons I agree. I have been using the NoScript plugin for Firefox which gives you this control.