I think there's room for incremental improvements by repurposing existing projects, with out starting a big project from scratch.
Adblockers are already used by people to filter what they consider junk, and a lot of resources have been invested developing them. So they can be used to improve the final quality here.
The anti ads filters of course they are nice, and they already exists anti-annoyance filters that go further. New custom filters could be created to cut the fat, while sparing what you want to see. The advantage here, would be that these filters could be used in modern browsers, so there's going to be far more interest in it then with just retrocomputing.
An other interesting project is browsh. Basically, it's firefox on a server that streams the final result in a terminal friendly form. So even javascript can be made to work this way on a 40 year old computer. Depending on the available processing power, even youtube videos could work.
I think there's room for incremental improvements by repurposing existing projects, with out starting a big project from scratch.
Adblockers are already used by people to filter what they consider junk, and a lot of resources have been invested developing them. So they can be used to improve the final quality here.
The anti ads filters of course they are nice, and they already exists anti-annoyance filters that go further. New custom filters could be created to cut the fat, while sparing what you want to see. The advantage here, would be that these filters could be used in modern browsers, so there's going to be far more interest in it then with just retrocomputing.
An other interesting project is browsh. Basically, it's firefox on a server that streams the final result in a terminal friendly form. So even javascript can be made to work this way on a 40 year old computer. Depending on the available processing power, even youtube videos could work.