> most of the websites we visit are revenue-generating and want to control their presentation
This project seems designed to work even without the cooperation of the sites you're interacting with; all the site-specific modules are maintained by the community. Adversarial interoperability at its finest.
In extreme cases, one could imagine a module running a full headless browser on the back-end, pretending to be a user scrolling around and clicking stuff, while presenting the actual user with a clean front-end.
This project seems designed to work even without the cooperation of the sites you're interacting with; all the site-specific modules are maintained by the community. Adversarial interoperability at its finest.
In extreme cases, one could imagine a module running a full headless browser on the back-end, pretending to be a user scrolling around and clicking stuff, while presenting the actual user with a clean front-end.