Comment by AIcanbiteme
7 hours ago
If it wasn't for webshitters and big tech pumping out JS and using framework on top of framework we could easily be browsing on ancient devices today.
7 hours ago
If it wasn't for webshitters and big tech pumping out JS and using framework on top of framework we could easily be browsing on ancient devices today.
Partially, but the biggest problem for old devices is encryption technologies.
It's hardly a problem because most web traffic doesn't need to be encrypted. Just banking, shopping, a few other things like healthcare and health care.
a) yes it does
b) it is literally trivial to buy a tiny RISC chip for a dew cents that can handle HTTPS just fine
The point is that https-everywhere people have successfully pushed the majority of the sites that could previously be served over vanilla http to require https anyway. Now if you're on and old device you need an https proxy or else you're out of luck.
It’s a problem because regardless of whether it needs to be or not, it is.
You'd be right if ISPs didn't do mass DPI and modification of pages to inject their own ads and trackers. They also routinely hijack and intercept DNS responses. They absolutely cannot be trusted carrying unencrypted traffic.