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It is not. I can open someone’s blog without knowing what trackers they have. A site has inherently a different trust boundary than an executable, and it should stay that way.

Not only that, you can vet someone's blog, decide you are ok with the trackers and revisit 24 hours later only to find that they've changed since you last visited.

True in theory but good luck explaining this to my grandma/99% of internet users. People click links freely even if they shouldn’t,

Twenty years ago they ran .exes just as freely.

And? Why should we still be adapting the security and privacy model we had 20 years ago?

To your analogy, 20 years ago this bit us all in the ass just as much because every EXE brought with it all sorts of toolbars and adware. I don’t want the web to become this.

20 years ago laptop weight was measured in pounds, clock speeds we're in MHz, storage was in single GB ranges, and battery life was a quarter of what it is today. Dial up was common, there was no youtube or spotify. Let's not hold ourselves to the standards of 3 generations ago of technology

Yes, and we established that was an awful idea..

And how do i get back to a hypertext reader?