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Re:I miss the programmable web (2021) by rektide on Saturday July 30, 2022 @12:52PM (#32288245)
Many sites are turning on CSP, a web security capability which lets sites block loading content from anywhere they don't allowlist.

Userscripts will run, but if they try to load any content from elsewhere, that breaks. So, for example, the Hypothes.is extension wont load. Affected sites keep growing. https://twitter.com turned on CSP many years ago.

Re:I miss the programmable web (2021) by aendruk on Saturday July 30, 2022 @04:47PM (#32290138)
This is such a silly problem to have. User agents that want an exception to a policy are free to make one.
Re:I miss the programmable web (2021) by rektide on Saturday July 30, 2022 @06:34PM (#32291041)
The mainstream browsers & spec authors sneer at & detest userscripts, wish they'd never been a thing. https://github.com/w3c/webappsec-csp/issues/444

I agree. This is simple & stupid a problem. It's grossly anti-user. But today, security rules, and security sees all the misdeeds of users, and those who would prey on them, and they have no emapathy left for creativity and fun. There's no moral-value-party left anywhere that defends user freedom, that is pro end-user-hacking.

The Manifest V3 (MV3) catastrophe is still scheduled for 4 months out, even though there is still only 1/3rd the work done thay it would take to allow GreaseMonkeyTamperMonkey/et-cetera to live. The new browsers are actively unwinding power & possibility, forever trying to undo the permissiveness that it had (ex: CORB, and now ORB). The standards authors & browser makers are infected with deep deep fear. Certainty & closedness is winning.

Re:I miss the programmable web (2021) by josephcsible on Saturday July 30, 2022 @06:40PM (#32291088)
Keep in mind that all of the mainstream browsers are funded by companies that make money off of advertising, so you should always look for ulterior motives from them.