It turns out that this was actually the only thing I wanted to change about any websites I visited, all other changes I desired were of the shape “stop visiting this website” which is harder to fix with software.
It should be possible to do that with a browser extension which substitutes pages from an unwanted site with a blank page or with a page with a “self-prohibition notice” or just redirects elsewhere (of course, nothing prevents a user from disabling the extension).
I may have a bit of a trapped prior that browser extensions written by other people are either malicious, or will auto-update to become malicious in the future.
quick note freedom isn’t a browser extension, it’s an app (which can still be malicious, but, literally their one job is make a VPN that prevents your computer from accessing the sites you don’t want from anywhere, and I think they have a reputation such that if it came out they were malicious malware it’d be a big deal for them)
It should be possible to do that with a browser extension which substitutes pages from an unwanted site with a blank page or with a page with a “self-prohibition notice” or just redirects elsewhere (of course, nothing prevents a user from disabling the extension).
I think at that point you should just get https://freedom.to/, which is already pretty optimized.
I may have a bit of a trapped prior that browser extensions written by other people are either malicious, or will auto-update to become malicious in the future.
quick note freedom isn’t a browser extension, it’s an app (which can still be malicious, but, literally their one job is make a VPN that prevents your computer from accessing the sites you don’t want from anywhere, and I think they have a reputation such that if it came out they were malicious malware it’d be a big deal for them)