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Comment by HPsquared | Hacker News Reader

It's kind of cheating, but I wonder if you could set up some kind of "server side rendering proxy" that would run all the JS on a given page, and send the client a plain html page with hyperlinks in place of interactive JS elements.

Edit: https://www.brow.sh/

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Opera Mini's "extreme mode" takes this approach. The server pre-renders content, also stripping out things the client doesn't need or that would require a lot of resources/bandwidth.

Note that this does present a bit of a man-in-the-middle scenario, and Opera's chief income is from advertising (and "query").

Just use Dillo. It's something has videos, use mpv+yt-dlp.

~/.config/mpv/config:

    #start
    ytdl-format=bestvideo[height<=?480][fps<=?30]+bestaudio/best
    ao=sndio
    vo=gpu,xv
    audio-pitch-correction=no
    quiet=yes
    pause=no
    profile=fast
    vd-lavc-skiploopfilter=all
    #demuxer-cache-wait=yes
    #demuxer-max-bytes=4MiB
    #end

~/yt-dlp.conf

    #start
    --format=bestvideo[height<=?480][fps<=?30]+bestaudio/best
    #end

That's a wonderful idea! Thank you!

Would that work with CORS?

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