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What I really want is something inbetween this and a full fledged browser. Something that will basically allow me to browse the web in Reader mode, with support for images and native video, but without any JS involved.

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I want a graphics terminal (as opposed to a text terminal) and a browser that opens in that terminal. The terminal should not run a windowing system. But the terminal itself should be able to run inside a windowing system.

I say just run firefox with NoScript for an easier medium... Add on "I don't care about cookies" and you're off to the races.

I have been thinking of using a full headless chrome or firefox (so all pages work) and then share that with a commandline / lite browser. So we render and then re-render the page. The browser would run in a remote computer somewhere and the lite browser connects there. So a chrome/firefox proxy basically .

I’m fairly certain I’ve read about someone doing this exact thing before.

https://www.brow.sh/

https://mightyapp.com is the first half of this

I like this idea. How do you know what to render, though? Do you simply copy-paste the page source (but then what’s the point?) or do you filter the source (but then how do you know what to filter out?)

Uh you can just disable JavaScript in Firefox' about:config

Not on mobile. They've removed that for some reason on the lines of "but why would you use that?"

Another casualty in the war on user agency.

You could use uBlock Origin and disable javascript by default, it's availavle on mobile. When necessary you can also reenable it for specific sites, works pretty well for me.

Also neat: you can disable media elements over a certain size (default is 50kb I think), which is a godsend if like me you have limited mobile data.

I'd recomend qutebrowser. It's not exactly what you're looking for out of the box, but it is very customisable. There's a learning curve but once you're used to it, no need to ever reach out for the mouse.

uMatrix on Firefox gets one pretty close to that ideal, and makes it easy enough to enable JavaScript (and similar stuff) selectively until webapps and broken-by-design websites work.

I strongly recommend it to the technically-inclined.

netsurf?

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