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Best of all you do not need to click the link, load the website, enable JavaScript because there is nothing without it and then tap the cookie banner away disabling all of the cookies first.
i see a future where we no longer access websites directly because websites got so bloated that using a bot to give us the content instead is just way easier
We do that now by skipping to the comments though...
A bot that would send us the content as email, which we'd read using Emacs. I can see that happening.
RSS to emacs possible?
And also avoiding the possibility of your browser not being supported. What a world.
Isn't that just chatGPT?
And don't get me started on "legitimate interest" cookies. Legitimate to whom?
Actually you usually need to have Javascript off, 90% of news websites paywalls are just Javascript so turning it off let's you read the article.
There are quite a many websites just showing a white page if JavaScript is off...