Re: Chrome browser will help you shop with AI

On Thu, 14 Aug 2024, Mike Spencer wrote:

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Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> writes:
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How about an algorithm that takes a webpage that has been SEO-ified and
enshittified beyond recognition and reduces it to the actual
information?  Example: get on a search engine and look for the recipe to
make a martini.  Your average webpage sharing a martini recipe is
multiple megabytes of shit and 1000+ words.  Give me an algorithm that
reduces it to a three or four line recipe.

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How's your perl?  If you have a web server that groks cgi-bin running
on localhost and a fetcher such as wget or curl, you can do this with
a local home page and a cgi-bin perl script.
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Doesn't work for pages that rely for content on javascript but where
js is peripheral, you can elide 90% or more of crap.
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Especially useful for pages you visit often (or would, were they not
enshittified.)
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Another thing I do sometimes, is to use "reader mode". That also some times gets rid of garbage.