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Re:The Bullshit Web by kodablah on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @06:03PM (#17657662)
This dovetails into an idea I had [0]. Basically just client side scrape the web as it's used and deliver people this plain text and simple forms. It would have a maintained set of definitions and potentially even logic to put a better "front" on all this bullshit. It's like reverse ad block where you only whitelist some content instead of blacklisting it. You could argue sites will get good at fighting it, but if used enough by the common user, they'd just alienate them (e.g. my scrape/front for Google search makes it clear which results the app has a friendly scrape/front for).

0 - https://github.com/cretz/software-ideas/issues/82

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Re:The Bullshit Web by cheezymoogle on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @06:27PM (#17657839)
I've often toyed with the idea of using multi-user systems over SSH running Gopher and Lynx to achieve something like this.

In the process, it would also decentralize communities and establish digital equivalents of coffee shops (i.e. places to work in public and meet strangers)--basically SDF, but deployable on Raspberry Pis with more modern userland toys (i.e. software actually designed to be multi-user on the same system).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDF_Public_Access_Unix_System

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Re:The Bullshit Web by kodablah on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @06:55PM (#17658033)
My main reason for client side is to skirt legal troubles that can result from running a web-filtering proxy (not whether it's legal or not, but whether you will be in legal fights). Either way, needs to be as transparent as possible and as usable by the less-tech-savvy as possible.

But that's really all it is, a web server (or an app, or an extension, or a combo) that serves you up the web looking like Craigslist. Would require strongly curated set of "fronts"/"recipes".

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Re:The Bullshit Web by Pete_D on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @03:59AM (#17660440)
Sounds a bit like tedunangst's miniwebproxy[0]. I've been wondering about writing either something like it or a youtube-dl-like "article-dl" for my own use, but haven't quite been annoyed enough into doing it yet.

[0] https://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/miniwebproxy (self-signed cert)

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Re:The Bullshit Web by dredmorbius on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @05:26AM (#17660891)
Nice. My own somewhat similar concept:

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/6bgowu/what_if...

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