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by developerDan 639 days ago
All of this computing power and it will still barely be able to load web pages without an ad blocker.
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Show me a chip 10000x more powerful and I’ll show you a program that runs 10000x slower
Nintendo Switch played this concept well contrapositively
At this point it should be possible to just read the page and extract only actually meaningful and relevant information (+ navigation bits) from it, effectively presenting a "reader mode"-like view instead of the original page content with all the junk and bloat.
That’s already a thing, it’s called Reader, built into Safari
Ah, that's cool if it's better than other browsers' reader modes. I'm currently on GNU/Linux so I don't have this option, and none of the browsers that I know about have anything actually usable as a daily driver (so, site navigation, simple forms, etc) rather than decluttering articles now and then.
Reinforces my belief that there must be evolutionary pressure forcing apps and shells to be just buttery sluggish.
You can get ad blockers in the app store, btw.
Also by downloading Firefox which comes with a safari plugin