[gAI]

I'm hoping we see a move to allow the rendering of the webpage to be entirely up to the users. Just provide the data, and let me decide how I want to interact with it. But that would ruin SEO and Ads, so we're gonna get in a buncha legal battles about web scrapers instead.

[Waterluvian]

“Reader Mode” is a successful example. I’m actually shocked it exists because of how it impedes the things you mention.

[zokier]

But reader mode is mostly bunch of heuristics with tons of ad-hoc special cases and hacks instead of relying documents to be well-structured. So in many ways it is the opposite of successful example.

https://github.com/mozilla/readability/blob/main/Readability...

[Waterluvian]

Oh true. Which kind of demonstrates the penalty for abusing HTML so much that it’s no-longer semantically reliable.

[zokier]

How long can it be called abuse if it is how html has been used like almost entirety of its lifetime.

[joshspankit]

By then AI will have disrupted the ad-revenue model so fingers crossed we get the clean data!