The modern web is becoming an unusable, user-hostile wasteland

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  1. guest

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    The modern web is becoming an unusable, user-hostile wasteland
    December 20, 2019
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  2. Reality

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    Wouldn't it be nice if everyone took notice of this post, but for those of us who've been paying attention this is nothing new and no surprise and we've long since reached the breaking point. Those who push advertising down everyones throats are despicable and those who mercilessly track you across the web should be thrown in jail for stalking.
     
  3. Brummelchen

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    facebook wants to be a web within the web and as the example "samsung" points out some companys use this way. no need to build an own platform, just distributing content with a click after writing. you can buy there, you can have support there. easy way.

    i know people who are able to build a home, to repair a car, but they dont know how to use a (desktop) computer, only whatsapp, but not typing, only voice messages. and thats all on smartphone for those. and i assume this group is growing, not only because of aging.
     
  4. Rasheed187

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    These are the the exact same things that are annoying as hell to me! I hate it that sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Pinterest force you to login. I also hate the stupid new style pop-ups. Not to forget about those dumb sites that make a browser almost crash even when ads are blocked. Think of CNET, I had to disable scripts completely, don't these guys feel any shame?
     
  5. SAustn2

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    It's depressing.
     
  6. Rasheed187

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    When you think of it, the web would be truly unusable without tools like uBlock, we should be thankful we can block most of this crap. I sometimes disable my adblocker because I want to support certain sites, but immediately the site becomes slow to load and you will get to see annoying animated ads. How am I suppose to concentrate on reading the article? And the people who invented auto playing and floating video's should be in jail.
     
  7. EASTER

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    Relevant topic and glad to see it myself.

    The gummed up internet is to the degree that it belongs in a junkyard of other scrap material.

    Its already so deteriorated for any real usefulness due to viewing content becoming overshadowed relentlessly & nearly impossible to focus on, as more ads are crammed in and other dancing animations which place an additional extra heavy load on resources & bandwidth that amounts to open thievery.

    Even something as common that use to be simple to comb over headline topics, Google News, with that recent overhaul bogs my machine down the second it opens and takes gobs of time for the progress circle to finish spinning loading it's contents.

    Its all a gummed up horrific mess. Furthermore, personally I find it mind boggling that groups actually get paid for fudging up sites with what amounts to unsightly and resource taxing graffetti that minimizes usability to those addresses.
     
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  8. Tarnak

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    We will need a new 'super highway', or is that a 'pay way'?
     
  9. Rainwalker

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    It is all part of what is going with the rabbit hole.
     
  10. Page42

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    If your square-headed girlfriend has become more aggravating than ever, leave her alone. Think of something else to do.
     
  11. Stefan Froberg

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    Ad blocking is just must these days.

    You never know what nice "gifts" the marketing folks bring you.

    In addition to loading your browser with tons of pop-ups, several JavaScript frameworks (because the geeks these
    days know nothing but jQuery), behind the scene AJAX requests, cookies and other things, you get a nice malware
    as a bonus too.

    2018
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/leemat...lware-that-mines-cryptocurrency/#283a02847866

    2017
    https://www.blog.geoedge.com/single...-Malvertising-Campaign-Hijacks-Users-Browsers

    2016
    https://www.techdirt.com/articles/2...ker-serves-up-steaming-pile-malware-ads.shtml

    2015

    https://www.itproportal.com/2015/08/03/yahoos-ad-network-used-to-spread-malware/
     
  12. SAustn2

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    And if you really feel like getting depressed about the modern web take a look at some of the software/internet companies listed on this webpage https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/

    A very enlightening article.
     
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  13. Beyonder

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    Personally, I wish AdNauseam wasn't such a meh extension. Because it's a really neat idea to auto-click tracking ads, draining them dry in the process.
     
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