On 210506-01:05-0500, J Leslie Turriff wrote: > On 2021-05-05 09:08:52 Miroslav Rovis wrote: > > To me, knowing what gets into my machine --and the > > browser is the most used for intrusion, has the attack > > surface ridiculously huge and hard to control-- is as > > important as free software and hardware. Free software and > > hardware must be safe, else my freedom can easily be > > compromised and hence it's not freedom anymore. [*] > > A long time ago, the web browser on my Amiga computer (AWeb) allowed me > to > disable image loading, then selectively download individual images by > clicking on them; it also allowed me to view the browser cache contents > to > see what was being downloaded. (One presumes that if the Amiga had > survived, AWeb would also allow doing this for video.) AmigaOS also > provided easy integration of scripting (using ARexx), and just about > every > application took advantage of that, so filtering was fairly easy. > > "Modern" web browsers have taken away these user-friendly features, or > hidden them in undocumented interfaces like about:config so that end > users > are effectively unable to control their machines.
Let me just say, and I just replied to Jean in this same thread, that if Emacs does this great cache-availability for users _and_... _And_ if it makes TLS-decryption available to users, I will find time to refresh my knowledge of Emacs and will try and use Emacs for browsing the Web! -- Miroslav Rovis Zagreb, Croatia https://www.CroatiaFidelis.hr my PGP-key: https://www.croatiafidelis.hr/FCF13245ED247DCE443855B7EA9884884FBAF0AE.asc
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