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Re:Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser by themodelplumber on Monday July 09, 2018 @10:05PM (#17494909)
Charge for plugins? For example, user macros, user styles, integration of other apps, advanced bookmarks, etc. Sell merch, create your own awards for lo-fi websites and charge people to nominate their sites. Hope it works out for you!
Re:Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser by tombh on Monday July 09, 2018 @10:49PM (#17495067)
Loads of ideas! So well first I need to identify what people want and are willing to pay for.

I like the awards for lo-fi websites, I could have a showcase section of the website.

Re:Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser by hexadecimal7e on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @12:57AM (#17495596)
I would pay for a mobile app that reduces my bandwidth usage during traveling while surfing the Webb away from WiFi.
Re:Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser by qplex on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @02:32AM (#17495876)
Use ublock and umatrix addons for Firefox, they're free and available on mobile too.
Re:Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser by hexadecimal7e on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @04:38AM (#17496304)
I am very familiar with uBlock and such. I have a local DNS at home which blocks a lot of stuff for the whole family at home without using plugin-blockers. My wife don’t know a life with ads and is often surprised when visiting friends: “what a nightmare of distraction”

What I mean is an app that connects to an instance (vm, server) a brow.sh.

I would like to install this in a lxc container and connect to it from my mobile via VPN and use HTTP-proxy settings or and with an specific brow.sh-app for my mobile. Could this work?

Re:Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser by tombh on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @04:58AM (#17496375)
It's be great if html.brow.sh could become a sophisticated proxy that stripped the web down to an absolute bare minimum. Yes I think travelers are the most likely to pay for it, but I think the poorer people of less developed nations would be the largest sector of users.

Currently though html.brow.sh is non-interactive, as soon as I start letting people logging in it opens up a whole bunch of privacy concerns!

Re:Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser by hexadecimal7e on Tuesday July 10, 2018 @07:58AM (#17497257)
Thanks for the answer. Well, created a Linux container (Ubuntu 17.10) using lxc. Installed browsh. Works very very fine. Same issues as others found:

* Forms not working in Firefox but works fine in the terminal. Google search...

Some more testing:

- use nginx as a proxy for browsh - configure the Firefox instance (install uBlock Orgin, remove history and set other privacy related configurations and hope it works.

Keep up the good work!

Re:Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser by tombh on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @03:03PM (#17509402)
Thanks for trying it out. How do you mean forms aren't working in Firefox but work fine in the terminal?

What made you think about using Nginx as a proxy?

You can already install Firefox extensions: https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh/issues/45