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> Storage is so dirt cheap today that there is zero reason why we shouldn't have reliable historic website state for everything we have ever looked at

I agree entirely, but I do about half my reading on mobile, and the phone company and the ad company have both decided that I shouldn’t be able to run extensions of any kind in the browsers available on my phone company phone or my ad company phone.

I’m not really sure of the solution. I had planned to start a business around this, but without mobile support it is probably a nonstarter.



Run your phone traffic through a proxy and have the proxy cache stuff.


Proxy can't intercept https, if I'm correct


For your information, SingleFile can run on Firefox for Android [1].

[1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile


All of my contacts use iMessage; Signal is starting to be viable with their iPad release now though. I am concerned about switching from Chrome to Firefox still on security grounds, but this may be sufficient to make me switch.


Wait why is Chrome good for security and Firefox not?


Chrome’s sandboxing is unparalleled in the browser space. No other browser comes close, unless you are running something in Qubes or suchlike. Then it doesn’t much matter.


Do you have a link which might give further information about how the sandboxing that Firefox offers and the one that Chrome offers are different?

I was under the impression that they were very similar.


There's something there -- if you can translate time or resource savings into value




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