After 10 seconds of reading an overlay appears that asks you to subscribe to their newsletter.
I guess they really needed to tell me I wasn’t welcome but damn.
Those are so infuriating. Especially when it’s for some random website that you’ll likely never have a reason to visit ever again. Does anyone actually subscribe? I highly doubt it, though who knows what old people do (I used to do end-user tech support and I’ve seen some shit). I’ve come across a couple of stores offer a small discount if you subscribe, which is at least a legit reason to do so, but this discount is so small that I even then I don’t bother.
Surprisingly, yes. I have no idea why people put their email addresses in those things, but they do. I put a tiny email capture on one of my websites once as an experiment. I didn’t even offer anything, It just said “Keep in touch”, and thousands of people signed into an double opt-in mailing list in the 3 weeks I had it up. Fucking weirdos.
A twice-weekly mailing list on cybersecurity sounds like a just punishment for their incompetence.
Bonus points if you had to enable JS beforehand because they load the content in via scripts afterwards.
- 30 mb of JS for 1 kb of text.
- Can’t zoom or scroll freely without JS interfering.
- Double-click on a word and it calls another script for ‘assistance’ instead of selecting the word.
- Right-click is disabled or bring their own ‘menu’ that does nothing.
Right-click is disabled or bring their own ‘menu’ that does nothing.
Me trying to copy a link in discord web:
“Let us fuck you in the ass?”
A. Yes
B. Maybe later
And first thing when you open the page your browser prompts you to enable notifications for the site so they can spam ads that way too
I always wondered does anybody (with sane enough understanding of tech) accept notifications? It’s the one thing I hate the most, it triggers anxiety and takes my attention away from what I have to do.
AI is even worse. It takes over the biases and misinformation of the info it was trained on, shows these on its answers to users who pick up those biases and use them elsewhere on the net, what is then used to train AI. It’s all becoming a shitification loop.
The future of the internet is the movie the human centipede. But with AI and what comes out is the new internet.
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While I agree with the sentiment, I’d imagine you can easily make the argument that written language is also for recording and documenting, not purely for human to human connection.
The meme is good, but the timeline is off. It was more like 2003 when websites didn’t suck. (Maybe earlier than that, even.)
Back when popups ruled the web?
Truth is the internet always sucked.
Websites already sucked by 2013
I don’t think people remember the amount of crazy websites that were out there spouting absolute nonsense. Websites had very little credibility.
Yes but if you googled a product you could get to user written reviews instead of the manufacturer website claiming its the best shit ever made and ai written „reviews” citing the history of the brand.
I honestly hate what internet has become
And sluggish as fuck
People act like 2010 wasn’t also bloated Flash sites that ran poorly though
Fuck flash, good games and fun memories, but also good riddance for accessibility.
Hey, those ads are heavy duty!
Well the difference is they didn’t use to ask you to accept cookies, they just took them.
Honestly that fucking box everywhere is worse. It should be a God damn setting in the browser not per page shit.
It is a setting in a browser. In the early 2000s the browsers even came with their own built-in popups asking if you want to accept cookies from this domain. Of course this was annoying so everyone had it set to “accept all”, which then became the default and eventually disappeared.
20 years later, some moron lawyer reinvented the same but worse.
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And don’t forget to download our app so we can take all your data!
I went to a site today that had a full page cookie popup. When I clicked manage cookies to disable, it presented me with a a choice of “eagerly interested” and “consent”. WTF is that? I didn’t see the opt out option right away so i just left the page.
Browsing on Firefox with auto-decline is so magical.
Link please?
Just search for how to disable cookies and cookie banners; it’s native functionality as of this year far as I can tell, you may habe to update a config setting, sorry have only been on FF a few months.
I also have privacy badger and Ghostery installed for movies and ublock on desktop, try exploring those if you can’t get FF to do natively.
Do you remember the site?
I mean no website back then was telling you to block them if you want. They just didn’t use javascript to detect blockers.
Also web hosting has gone WAY up. My simple static website used to cost $5 per month to host. Now it’s $30 for the same spec server. The ones that are closer to $5 are so insanely oversold and slow, a website takes a good 30-45 seconds to load.
Unless you have millions of hits per month or your “static site” is Wordpress with a page builder, you might want to look into other web hosting offers. A VPS is overkill for a static site, and you can get a decent VPS for $10-$12 range. With enough bandwidth and io to host many static websites.
You can easily host a static website on a dirt cheap VPS. The Hetzner ARM boxes are less than $5/mo with an IPv4 address and are going to be more than sufficient for the average static website… My website is on a cheap VPS with worse specs than the Hetzner ones and it does not take 30-45 seconds to load.
A true static site can use GitHub Pages for free hosting (probably other options, too – never checked). That’s what I do for my ultra low traffic personal site (at least, I assume ultra low – I don’t install any tracking on principle). I pay for a domain and that’s it (and that’s just to look nicer, not actually necessary).
I’ve being using Netlify, it’s really professionally feature rich, and the free tier is more than enough for my needs.
Hell most sites back then didn’t even have mobile support yet and still used tons of flash elements, that was just the beginning of mass internet adoption due to smart phones
Man I got so excited when Flash finally came to Android. And then not that long after, Adobe announced that they’d be discontinuing it.
Will you let us track literally everything you do?
Yes! - I promise I’ll do it later
The early internet really was a wonderful place. Filled with godawful clip art sites but a wonderful place…
There are more useful web apps than before but blog/affiliate sites are a plague.
That said if I could make a ton of money by clogging up the internet with garbage content then I would. There is nothing holy about this place.
Here’s some ads to cover my costs
Narrator voice: it doesn’t cover their costs, but they have investor money so it’s ok
