• tabular@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I am once again asking users to consider the eventual abandonment of web browsers. It is too big and complex for competition to actually create new ones, so this was inevitable.

    [No offense intended to those working on important changes in forks, just saying proportionally it’s only a minor diff, no?]

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      11 months ago

      Wait, what? What alternative do you suggest? Apps and App Stores?

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        11 months ago

        I’m probably going to use this as a motivation to finally implement serious Digital Minimalism, and just stop using websites that force me to use it.

        Banking will be the biggest problem, but other than that, I don’t really need to spend my time on the internet. And this kind of DRM infuriates me so much, that I might just get a life just out of spite.

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          11 months ago

          You can always just go into a branch to do your banking. Less convenient, sure, but paying with cash is another way to avoid intrusive surveillance capitalism.

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        11 months ago

        If the site is more complex than displaying raw text and links (to download files, and other pages), yes.