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I'd like to interject for a moment here, and pitch my idea about what I call the "Web 4.0". It's basically a binary equivalent of HTML, without the many inconveniences of HTML for content providers.

Web 4.0 pages are obfuscated WebAssembly payloads, that draw their contents via WebGL. This way, adblocking becomes impossible, as the actual content and ads are within the same opaque WebGL framebuffer. Stealing copyrighted text is also made significantly harder, beause the Web 4.0 platform leaves it up to the publisher to enable glyph selection and copying. You have concerns about accessibility? Web 4.0 is 100% accessible thanks WebAudio based realtime speech synthesis!




it'll also be harder to learn how things work... i wonder how much we've learned from reverse engineering the easy to read inline script tags... I definitely remember teaching myself JavaScript by reading blizzard.com's late 90s markup... figuring out that mouse over effect with onmouseover and onmouseout... works in ie4... but whats that strange bug in netscape 4..


You can't really do that today anymore though


> adblocking becomes impossible

No, it'd just take a sufficiently smart AI.


Just like the good old days with sites built in Flash :)




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