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by thwarted 268 days ago
We're too lazy to browse now, that we need machines to do it?
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When every goddamn webpage presents itself to me like this: https://i.imgur.com/mMi8an3.png

I do need machines to do the browsing for me.

You might want to explore ad, script and popup blockers(EG: no script, ad block plus, ghostery).

They exist for that very reason, the web is much friendlier.

No no no we don't need a sustainable answer to the cancer of ads on the internet, that would break capitalism and send the world sliding into chaos! No, see, what we need is AI in our browsers. That is going to transform things.
I don’t think that website actually wants you to be here, it looks like it’s trying to get you to leave.
You need an ad blocker badly lol
The idea is you could ask a to browser to do things like operate on multiple websites to do boring stuff, e.g. cross check phone reviews across sites x y and z.

I 100% don't feel comfortable letting my browser work alone, but "agentic browsers" are a thing some people want and/or are building.

A small part of me wants this to spectacularly succeed so I can stop using whatever the army of figma designers wishes to force down my throat when most things I need could be spreadsheets with a few buttons with macros hooked up.
It makes sense as an avenue for Agents as well, since it is the defacto "work app" platform. For many, their entire workday is spent inside the browser.
It’s not browsing we are lazy at. It’s parsing through ton of results until we find what we were looking for.