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For those who want to experience it: https://how-i-experience-web-today.com/

The only inaccurate thing of that meme page is that you only need to uncheck 5 cookie "partners", when in reality there should be at least a few hundred.

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The web page source seems full of Easter eggs and I'm not sure how intentional that is. The generic labels and descriptions of content as "useless" make sense, but then I noticed things like multiple redundant </ul> tags and this script comment:

  src: "https://js.monitor.azure.com/scripts/b/ai.2.min.js", // The SDK URL Source
  crossOrigin: "anonymous", // When supplied this will add the provided value as the cross origin attribute on the script tag

which is part of configuration for some minified/obfuscated driver....

Anyway, is it really not even possible to set up things like NoScript and uBlock Origin on mobile?

Firefox for Android can handle uBlock Origin, probably NoScript as well. It's the one thing keeping me on Android at this point.

I run desktop Firefox on my GNU/Linux phone, so I could leave Android behind.

Which phone are you using? How is your experience?

Librem 5 is my daily driver, buy I'll just give links to good, extensive reviews:

https://forums.puri.sm/t/nine-months-librem-5-as-my-only-pho...

https://forums.puri.sm/t/a-l5-review-1-week-to-my-ready-to-s...

Are you saying on iOS there is no way to browse the Internet without an ad blocker? Maybe I should get an iPhone to stop spending time on my phone...

Can't answer that authoritatively since I don't know if there's something iOS-specific, but Firefox is the only browser on Android that lets you have uBlock Origin. And I know that Firefox on iOS doesn't.

> The web page source seems full of Easter eggs

Indeed... click the video play button :)

Unfortunately it only has ~3 domains running JS on it's example site.

I needs to have 15+ to really capture that modern web experience.

The site has a few other issues... The ads contrast with the content instead of blending in; there are only 2 ads inline with the content, and one is clearly an easy to ignore banner; all the cookie "partners" could be disabled, there should be 2 or 3 that you can't change.

    document.querySelectorAll("[type='checkbox']").forEach(c => c.checked = undefined)

Adjust the selector as neccessary, sometimes I'll use `#id-of-cookie-banner [type='checkbox']`

Probably useless for mobile though, unless you can punch it in the omnibar with `javascript:` prefix

And you get a laundry list of several hundred switches that you have to manually switch off to deny their “legitimate interests”.

that was great, thanks for the laugh.

omg, this is a gem

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