How I Experience Web Today (2021)

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Post by airstrike » Mon, Oct 14, 2024, 7:22 PM UTC

How I Experience Web Today (2021)
how-i-experience-web-today.com

Re: How I Experience Web Today (2021)

#2

Post by hyperhello » Mon, Oct 14, 2024, 7:41 PM UTC

Great parody that isn’t a parody.

When I get a page like that now I’ve learned that there probably isn’t anything worth reading.

Re: How I Experience Web Today (2021)

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Post by sonofhans » Mon, Oct 14, 2024, 7:43 PM UTC

This is too real. Even to the point where it barely works at all with ad blockers on. Without ad blockers it’s like fingernails on a chalkboard, just like the web is.

At this point I have so many different content-blocking extensions running, trying to trim this crap off my screen, that they sometimes conflict and break things. And still crap gets through.

Re: How I Experience Web Today (2021)

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Post by cle » Mon, Oct 14, 2024, 7:43 PM UTC

It's even worse than that, first Google will bug you to use Chrome, then bug you to login, then after your search the browser will pop up "Google would like to use your current location". And then the first half-page of results are ads. And half of the actual results are AI slop and a helpful AI summary of the slop. And that's before you even get to the page.

Re: How I Experience Web Today (2021)

#5

Post by syncsynchalt » Mon, Oct 14, 2024, 7:44 PM UTC

Getting to the final page was a good reminder of the new "Hide Distracting Items" in the latest macOS Safari.

The feature lets you select offending blocks which are deleted from the page. The feature remembers the items you deleted on re-visit, too.

Re: How I Experience Web Today (2021)

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Post by Vermyndax » Mon, Oct 14, 2024, 7:44 PM UTC

hyperhello wrote: post #2

Great parody that isn’t a parody. When I get a page like that now I’ve learned that there probably isn’t anything worth reading.

This has been my mental shift as well. I also decide this when someone tells me the site only works in Chrome, so I should switch to Chrome. No, thanks.

Re: How I Experience Web Today (2021)

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Post by blackhaj7 » Mon, Oct 14, 2024, 7:45 PM UTC

Spot on!

Re: How I Experience Web Today (2021)

#8

Post by Bulbasaur2015 » Mon, Oct 14, 2024, 7:48 PM UTC

This is so funny

Re: How I Experience Web Today (2021)

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Post by beretguy » Mon, Oct 14, 2024, 7:49 PM UTC

Am i missing something is this text:

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I search something

https://example.com Then it shows me something Example Domain. This domain is for use in illustrative examples in documents. You may use this domain in literature without prior coordination or asking for ...

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And the rest of the page is blank white. I’m not seeing anything else. What is everybody talking about?

Re: How I Experience Web Today (2021)

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Post by anyfoo » Mon, Oct 14, 2024, 7:50 PM UTC

What I always don't understand is: So you don't want to pay for online content, but you also want to use an ad blocker. In summary, you don't want the author or creator to get paid?

Personally, I hate ads, so I pay. I have digital subscriptions to the newspapers I read. I have YouTube Premium (because I spend an ungodly amount of time on that site).

But for people who want to do neither... what's your idea?