Non-malicious compliance would be a protocol extension, don’t ask me how, but if WebSockets exist, then it’s possible to make an EuHTTP standard to which you’d upgrade. So that all these popups wouldn’t be needed and you’d conveniently set things up on the client.

Actually owch. One can just take some WS library and make a Gemini-like protocol, only over WebSockets (allowing for much of normal infrastructure to support it, you know, nginx, haproxy, lots of stuff), that would leverage convenient existing technologies and without need for Google’s browser engine more complex and expensive than a rocket.

OK, that’s called NOSTR, they are just not aiming for replacing Web in any form. For now.

EDIT: And this probably is not what’s being discussed.

which is probably better than diverging hallucinations

Shouldn’t it be the other way around?

If you’d seen the original statement in Russian, you’d realize this person has no idea what they are talking about at all, and with their job title, the purpose of it is just to present some kinda more liberal viewpoint for appearance.

And yes, it’s possible, Iran and North Korea are doing it, and there are plenty of countries with heavy censorship and regulation, and there’s a piece of good engineering advice I once got - “you get to your goal faster if you don’t pick up boss fights”, meaning that while it’s cool for a commenter on the Web to imagine them taking the hardest and most expensive path to solving the problem of censorship and control, they have different choices.