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The browser thanks to JavaScript has become a platform. It has displaced native desktop development. As a developer it would suck for me to be imposed limits. Another thing to manage.

Personally, I don't see a problem to be solved here. Bloated sites with ads will always exist. The solution is quite simple - don't visit them. They will eventually die or be replaced by something leaner. A great example is GitHub which has replaced Sourceforge.

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Statists will downvote this post, they believe regulation can solve the issue.

Libertarians will upvote this post, they believe the market can solve the issue.

This article is the programmers' equivalent of Grover Norquist saying "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."

Only with Javascript.

Also, libertarians are statists. Weak statists, but statists nonetheless.

Anarchists will look a this post and shake their head in dispair.

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