Re: web browser recommendation
Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 13:39:18 -0800, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> > On Sat Mar 8 13:29:36 2025 debian-user@howorth.org.uk wrote:
> > > D MacDougall <dmacdoug@usc.edu> wrote:
> > >> https://duckduckgo.com
> > >
> > > That's just a blank page except for a picture of a duck, the word
> > > DuckDuckGo and a search box. No explanation of anything at any
> > > length?
> >
> > Scroll down.
It's all one page, no scrolling.
> Interesting. I see *way* more widgets than @howorth is seeing, even
> without looking downward.
>
> Across the top, I see the corporate logo, a long entry field for the
> search text, a button for chat (with a speech balloon icon next to
> it), and a hamburger menu button.
>
> Below that, there's some text in a large font, then a very large
> button offering me the opportunity to make DDG my default search
> engine.
>
> At the bottom of the page are the words "Learn more", and a round
> button with a downward-pointing arrow inside it.
>
> If @howorth is running some kind of ad blocker or client-side content
> filter that's altering the contents of the page, it must be a *really*
> aggressive one.
All I'm running is noscript. Aren't you?
> P.S. looking at the HTML source with Ctrl-U, it's all one line.
> Seriously, who does that?
Anybody used to JS minimisation.
> hobbit:~$ xclip -o | wc
> 0 2960 44363
>
> 44 kilobytes of HTML/CSS/Javascript, all in one. stupid. line. Well,
> they found a way to make me stop trying to read their page source,
> that's for damned sure.
That's what pretty printers are for surely?
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