htmlproplus

I believe this would open the playing field for many people to create browsers

That's why it's not going to happen. Even if you managed to reset the cycle it will just happen again but this time even faster. EEE/standards corruption is just too powerful, I haven't read a single successful strategy to stop that long term. So even a parallel subset of the web doesn't seem immune to that. Like the other day I was reading about KaiOS and you can guess who's already investing in that platform.

Google (and the subsequent overlords) are cancer and there's no cure.

Why not make the proxy an opt-in fallback by default? I like my fails to be catastrophic. I don't want to touch any host I don't have to. Ever. And doesn't it leak metadata if you aren't careful? I remember a Go page to request data removal. A package named github.com/microsoft/clippy already makes my skin crawl.

A little off-topic. I like Go but haven't used it in a while.

While offline I remember a couple go command operations were surprisingly giving me proxy.golang.org or network unavailable errors. In the sense that it had no reason to touch the network. Can you refresh my memory what they were? Or if they are still present? I can't for the life of me find or remember the answer.

It was what made me discover some of the things the article mentions, like the package index.