> The vast majority is filled up with ad-tracking garbage and Facebook videos.
There is the problem then, and the solution? I for one don't make bloated sites nilly-willy, I suck at what I do but at least I do love to fiddle and tweak for the sake of it, not because anyone else might even notice; and I like that in websites and prefer to visit those, too. Clean, no-BS, no hype "actual websites". So I'd be rather annoyed if my browser brought some more stuff I don't need along just because the web is now a marketing machine and people need to deploy their oh so important landing pages with stock photos and stock text and stock product in 3 seconds. It was fine before that, and I think a web with hardly any money to be made in it would still work fine, it would still develop. The main difference is that it would be mostly developed by people who you'd have to pay to stay away, instead of the other way around. I genuinely feel we're cheating ourselves out of the information age we could have, that is, one with informed humans.
There is the problem then, and the solution? I for one don't make bloated sites nilly-willy, I suck at what I do but at least I do love to fiddle and tweak for the sake of it, not because anyone else might even notice; and I like that in websites and prefer to visit those, too. Clean, no-BS, no hype "actual websites". So I'd be rather annoyed if my browser brought some more stuff I don't need along just because the web is now a marketing machine and people need to deploy their oh so important landing pages with stock photos and stock text and stock product in 3 seconds. It was fine before that, and I think a web with hardly any money to be made in it would still work fine, it would still develop. The main difference is that it would be mostly developed by people who you'd have to pay to stay away, instead of the other way around. I genuinely feel we're cheating ourselves out of the information age we could have, that is, one with informed humans.