[chokma]

DownloadNet reminds me of how I got really started with Perl programming over 20 years ago. Since I was using my parent's land line with a dial-up modem (which cost cents/minute), I wanted to speed up the process of looking for a job via the government's official job search site.

Turns out, on my slow computer it was faster to clean up a megabyte of HTML with regular expressions before giving it to Firefox than just rendering it as-is - by about 30 seconds per search result page.

Perhaps it's possible to sanitize often visited websites with DownloadNet? (currently getting aggravated by reddit hiding images via JS code to prevent download / viewing in another tab...)

[paleface]

> Perhaps it's possible to sanitize often visited websites with DownloadNet? (currently getting aggravated by reddit hiding images via JS code to prevent download / viewing in another tab...)

Many years ago, I remember using a utility called: privoxy, on Linux/Unix, for that very purpose. No idea if it’s still viable, but thought I’d mention it, in case you’re serious?!

[keepamovin]

That's a fascinating idea. I like the idea of "custom user script extensions" that folks can plug in, author and share.

If you're passionate enough you could contribute a write-up, some code sketch or even a full PR of how this works. I'm sure you're probably too busy for that, or just not interested, and that's OK. I really appreciate the contribution you've already made with this idea.

I think allowing folks to filter, or sanitize (for whatever purpose really, sanity, focus, etc), sounds very useful.

Thanks! :)