Or just set your browser javascript to temp whitelist only and rarely enable it while using HTTP/1.1. 99.99% of surveillance is mediated via javascript execution if only because it's the easiest way. Not a lot of people using actual logs anymore since they doesn't allow one to be <i>really</i> invasive.<p>The trust on first use self-signed TLS culture of gemini is great though and should be applied more widely by individuals in their behavior on the normal web.
If only, if only Gemini had embedded images and a decent layout engine to position those.<p>This isn’t new to HTML.<p>Medieval books had embedded images.<p>Heck even ancient manuscripts had embedded images that were beautifully laid out.<p>I simply don’t see why Gemini couldn’t fulfill its mission with beautifully laid out embedded images.<p>It would have been delightful. Now it’s merely a gimmick.
<i>> Intrusive advertisements, Bloated JavaScript widgets, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated, Search Engine Optimized (SEO) slop suffocate our web browsing experience.</i><p>Says the article whose splash image is AI-generated slop, that reads like an intrusive advertisement, and whose source code contains links to scripts from www.googletagmanager.com.<p>You can't make this stuff up.
I've read a lot about Gemini and nothing really excites me the same way the web excited me in the late 90s.<p>To me it mostly seems different to be different, not better in any way (except claiming that it undoes the badness of the "modern web", whatever that really entails).<p>I still write my websites like I did in the 90s, just with HTML 5 and CSS, and JS where needed.<p>Maybe the better path would have been to base something on HTTP, with a defined subdomain (remember when we saw www. at the start of 90% of urls?) and some sort of trust model
I just completed moving my WEB site to Gemini, I find it far easier to maintain. There is a lot of content out in Gemini without the annoyance of the modern WEB.
The deployment procedure is too complex. Have we learned nothing in the past 30 years?<p>One of the major shortcomings of the WWW is that it requires technical skills to publish content. If this was as simple as consuming it, and we had the equivalent UX as the web browser, the centralization we got and all its associated problems would've been minimized, if not avoided altogether.<p>Maintaining the P2P distributed nature of the internet is crucial in protocols of this type. Otherwise once (if) it ever gains traction, the alternative will have the same problems. Gemini doesn't address these issues directly, other than by being very niche and deliberately brutalist. This means it was never designed to be popular, so this article will not appeal to anyone who doesn't already have an interest in it. Let alone entice anyone to escape the current web.<p>Yes, the current web is deeply broken beyond repair. Using it is a hostile and frustrating experience. I'm not sure what the solution to these problems is, but it's certainly not Gemini.