So much of my experience of browsing the web is fighting sites over how I want them displayed, that I'm beginning to think that I don't want a web browser that renders web pages, and instead I want a web browser that scrapes content from web pages and displays it according to my preferences.
Like, no one can make a web browser because the web is so complex, and we mostly use that complexity for:
- Running complex client-side applications in a cross-platform virtual machine. Which is really cool, but I kinda hate that the UI and the service are so often tied together.
- Bombarding me with distractions when I just want to read an article or watch a video or whatever.
And.. maybe a simple client would be better than a complex VM and layout engine a lot of the time?
@madewokherd firefox has some feature that simplifies a page for better reading. But not sure how well that fits your usecase. Maybe sites are also completely broken with that...
