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@nostupidquestions which are the light weight browsers that can browse literally any modern website ? (edited)

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[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 1 points 22 hours ago

Personally, I prefer browsers that by default disable most of the stuff on modern websites unless I explicitly enable it.

It’s been over a decade since I’ve visited a public website that ran exactly the way the owner planned on my browser — but that’s a good thing. I browse for the most part without ads or scripts or tracking. It’s fast, reasonably secure, and when a page fails to load what I’m expecting, I have to make the decision on whether it’s worth lowering my privacy, security and resource posture to make it work.

One solution that works pretty well is to use a web gateway that takes any website and makes it mostly functional on any browser back to the original Netscape Communicator and NCSA Mosaic. That way, you can use a very lightweight browser and let a server somewhere do the heavy lifting.

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