The main thing I'd like to see HTML (maybe more accurately, without-Javascript) do is AI-bot protection.
Browsing the web with Javascript turned off makes things much more tolerable on my low-RAM computer. Until a year or two, I could access the vast majority of the sites that I cared to. With anti-AI-bot protection becoming prevalent, this has gotten a lot worse lately.
I've read somewhere that recent versions of Anubis support no-JS mode. I haven't seen it in use much yet. I wonder if that's because sites are still using old versions of Anubis, or because it's turned off by default in the new version, and sites haven't bothered to enable it, or some other reason.
One instance I've noticed is codeberg, which seemed to be using some no-JS-compatible bot protection -- I'm not sure if it is/was Anubis -- I don't use codeberg regularly (I haven't needed an account there yet), so I'm not sure about details.
Rate-limiting was always a server-side feature, and HTML has nothing to do with this.
"AI-bot protection" is the latest boogeyman for driving the Internet towards centralised control, along with age/identity verification and the rest of the DRM "trusted" computing crap. So much manufactured consent. It's sickening to see so many fall for that propaganda, especially those who should know better. Tell everyone who still thinks "AI bots" and not just plain old DDoS'es from those in bed with Big Tech are somehow pummeling their site, that the misdirection and lies are no longer working, and we might see things improve.
Browsing the web with Javascript turned off makes things much more tolerable on my low-RAM computer. Until a year or two, I could access the vast majority of the sites that I cared to. With anti-AI-bot protection becoming prevalent, this has gotten a lot worse lately.
I've read somewhere that recent versions of Anubis support no-JS mode. I haven't seen it in use much yet. I wonder if that's because sites are still using old versions of Anubis, or because it's turned off by default in the new version, and sites haven't bothered to enable it, or some other reason.
One instance I've noticed is codeberg, which seemed to be using some no-JS-compatible bot protection -- I'm not sure if it is/was Anubis -- I don't use codeberg regularly (I haven't needed an account there yet), so I'm not sure about details.
"AI-bot protection" is the latest boogeyman for driving the Internet towards centralised control, along with age/identity verification and the rest of the DRM "trusted" computing crap. So much manufactured consent. It's sickening to see so many fall for that propaganda, especially those who should know better. Tell everyone who still thinks "AI bots" and not just plain old DDoS'es from those in bed with Big Tech are somehow pummeling their site, that the misdirection and lies are no longer working, and we might see things improve.