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by eimrine 986 days ago
Seems like you have described apps for snoop-phones. Those are a refresh-less, not device-agnostic browser apps with no tabs, no ability to change a font-size and limited ability to block ads.
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By snoop-phone, do you mean stalkerware? I have not heard this phrase before. Thanks in advance for the clarification.
I am a big fan of RMS and I find promising to promote his way of naming things everywhere. Here are two recent links which explain this word choice.

[1] https://www.stallman.org/archives/2023-jul-oct.html#26_Septe...

[2] https://www.stallman.org/archives/2023-jul-oct.html#11_Septe...

Ah, but that's not that case here at all. It's not an app. It's still a sandboxed web page. The only difference is the communication method. Rather than a transactional client-server relationship, we adopt the media-steaming approach post-load.

That is to say: You would load your desired website (the standard way) and then experience a "refresh-less" session for the duration of your visit.

Do you propose thin or thick client? How about Java applets or MS Silverlight?
Why such archaic examples?

Imagine visiting this website, Hacker News, to read a few posts/discussions. Does the idea of circumventing a refresh offend you? You could click into a threaded discussion (from the homepage) and back without triggering a reload or needing the data beforehand.

Other than the indexability problem, it seems like an ideal solution. In many use cases, the indexability problem is actually a feature too.

> Why such archaic examples?

I haven't understood why apps are not what you ask, so I tried to remember some well-known technologies/approaches.

> Does the idea of circumventing a refresh offend you?

Yes because I prefer to request things from online when I want but not when my device wants.