> we need an in-browser AI bot to get rid of them appropriately.
Not just popups. We need browsers to die and be reborn as User Agents again.
Currently the best browsers do is some translation and summarization, but there's currently zero automation.
An ability to tell user agent a command, in a natural language, like "go through first 10 pages of those Amazon search results, check every one of them including photos, descriptions and reviews, filter products according to those and those criteria (and not whatever Amazon lets me search and filter on) and give me a nice clean list of images and links with zero extra junk" will be a game changer.
We have all the tools, it's about time we show a middle finger to dark patterns and enshittification. Sure, it'll be a game of cat-and-mouse with websites fighting against robotic agents empowering end users (ad industry is going to hate this so much), but it's a battle worth fighting.
Well, they surely aren't committing seppuku. No such thing as a corporate honor or shame, only business interests. At least, not with any large corporations.
And this status quo needs to change. Too much power and information disparity at the moment, the markets are essentially broken.
IMO, the easiest and most healthy way to get from here to there is by splitting those companies. There are plenty of ways they can be reborn, many even without hurting anybody.
Not just popups. We need browsers to die and be reborn as User Agents again.
Currently the best browsers do is some translation and summarization, but there's currently zero automation.
An ability to tell user agent a command, in a natural language, like "go through first 10 pages of those Amazon search results, check every one of them including photos, descriptions and reviews, filter products according to those and those criteria (and not whatever Amazon lets me search and filter on) and give me a nice clean list of images and links with zero extra junk" will be a game changer.
We have all the tools, it's about time we show a middle finger to dark patterns and enshittification. Sure, it'll be a game of cat-and-mouse with websites fighting against robotic agents empowering end users (ad industry is going to hate this so much), but it's a battle worth fighting.