[mindcrime]

I don't know of a solution. I know we can try to win battles, by building and proposing software that lets more people exercise more control over their browsers. Unfortunately, I feel that organizations responsible for the Web - the consortia and browser vendors - are all fighting on the side of publishers now.

Yeah, that's a real problem for sure.

Browsers are starting to function less as User Agents, and more as remote terminals.

I know, I've been railing against this for probably 8 or 9 years now... with little to show for it, unfortunately. Probably for the reasons you just cited. sigh

[TeMPOraL]

I fear that the only thing we can do is to keep on designing user-respecting sites and tooling that lets users control the way they consume content, and just let the web fork. Leave the money-driven web for moneymakers and people satisfied with that state, and let a productive web develop on the side of it.