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        <h2>Filtering the web</h2>
        <h3>2026-06-20</h3>
        <h4>A browser that says no</h4>
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          To me the problem with the smolweb is that there's isn't a browser
          that applies these rules. Dillo comes close, even though it needs a
          makeover.
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          Dillo also has an rdrview plugin, but you have to manually write
          rdrview: in front of the url in the url bar of every page to see the
          results.
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          A better solution would be a smolweb plugin that filters the entire
          html page rejecting anything that doesn't
          <a href="https://smolweb.org/validator/">validate</a> or pass to
          rdrview . Degrees of acceptance could be set in settings.
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          A dedicated browser wouldn't require searching for smolweb / smallweb
          / indieweb blogs, sites, or articles. (There seems to be no such thing
          as a smolweb search engine, although points for wiby, marginalia, kagi
          and mojeek).
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          Just point the browser to any web site and if it borks, display the
          "errors" or ignore it with a
          <a
            href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Status/418"
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            418 I'm a teapot error</a
          >: after all it's the web site author's responsibility to provide
          clean, readable web sites.
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          Imagine a world where this plugin would be as ubiquitous as
          ublock-origin, it could even change web site development.
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