i am increasingly moving towards a model of 'no browser'.

search for me is now a proprietary index (like exa) that filters rubbish, with a zero data retention sla. so we don't need google profiling.

the content is distilled into markdown pulled from cloudflare's browser rendering api.

i let cloudflare absorb the torrent of trackers and robot checks, i just get md from the api with nothing else. cloudflare is poacher and gamekeeper.

an alternative is groq compound which can call browsers in parallel.

for interactive sites, or local ai browsing, i sometimes run a browser in a photon os docker with vnc, which gives you the same browser window but it runs code not on your pc.

that said little of my use is now interacting with websites, its all agentic search and websets so i don't have to spend mental energy on it myself