[paulcole]

> As long as the user can access the HTML for free, they should be able to use any application (a browser or a special app) and render the content however they wish.

You can see how the end game of this is HTML no longer being free, right?

[NovaDudely]

The worse case vision I have of the future internet in one in which content and advertising is hosted by the advertising companies and rendered via a web assembly system.

Content and advertising cannot be separated by IP and the site content is basically an application that is difficult to parse.