I would really like ad blockers to ratchet up this war, blocking cookie banners, "please subscribe to our newsletter", "5% off, get it now", "we need to talk about your adblocker", "subscribe to our newsletter", and all other forms of popover BS. That stuff makes the web suck! I find it so jarring and rude that now I usually just close the page. If books were like this I would probably have never had the attention span to learn anything. But they have a lot of experience boiling frogs and most people just put up with it.
I’d love to see browser become true “user agents” — working on behalf of users.
I’d love them to block, ignore, combine, reformat or whatever the data spewed out by a server to provide the best possible view of the site for the users need.
I’ve been wondering about some kind of AI based reinterpretive browser that consumes the site (or perhaps even many sites matching a search) for you and emits different content depending on what you asked for.
