Comment by ekjhgkejhgk 9 hours ago
I mean... I don't give a fuck about fonts, I don't give a fuck about drawing shit to some canvas. Can I not just opt out?
Yes, I know that's ski-mask bla bla bla, but I still don't want my browser to be doing this nonsense.
Gemini and Gopher are better than the existing WWW, (although there are others as well, such as Spartan (uses the same file format as Gemini, but it is a different protocol without TLS), Scorpion (my own format, intended to be between Gemini and "WWW as it should be if it was designed better"), and others).
However, you might also want to access HTTP and HTML, and to do so without needing to load fonts, pictures, etc; you might use a web browser that omits many of these features. However, it also can result in some problems; there are a few ways to work around some of these, such as adding your own scripts to handle some services, adding proxy services for handling some services (although some of these can use other protocols such as Gemini), and/or using the HTML/CSS commands in other ways (e.g. using ARIA to decide the formatting rather than using CSS). However, there are other issues, e.g. if the web page you download includes more junk than the actual main text.
There's the gemini protocol and gopher.
When I think of all the tracking that goes on, these are becoming more lucrative.