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A comment on Cory Doctorow: Persuasion, Adaptation, and the Arms Race for Your Attention. Parent comment

Re:Cory Doctorow: Persuasion, Adaptation, and the Arms Race ... by tannhaeuser on Thursday January 11, 2018 @04:55AM (#16122613)
It would be an excellent outcome of Meltdown/Spectre if we could just get rid of JavaScript and other attempts at throwing arbitrary crap code at you (such as WASM unblockable ads, bc miners, and what not) and work towards the original goal of the Web as federated (or even better p2p) hyperlinked documents once again.
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Re:Cory Doctorow: Persuasion, Adaptation, and the Arms Race ... by hugo0384729109 on Thursday January 11, 2018 @08:04PM (#16129579)
Seriously. My kingdom for 10pt verdana and a few hours clicking through a web ring.
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