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Re: How I Experience Web Today (2021)

#91
How could something be so relatable?

It’s this type of foolishness that has turned me so trigger-happy with that “X” button. I close tabs so quickly nowadays that I sometimes forget why I even visited a website in the first place, and I usually end up having to right-click and click “Reopen closed tab” to go back once I remember why.

The cookie pop-ups are especially annoying—no, I don’t want your cookies!

Re: How I Experience Web Today (2021)

#92

I don’t get why more people don’t use Brave. It literally blocks all of these annoying things (not only ads) on mobile and desktop and it’s very easy to disable all the crap they add to make money (although I do feel bad and actually writing this made me think to donate if that is an option). Brave search is 80% as good as Google’s too.

Good reminder, I’ll give it a download again.

Re: How I Experience Web Today (2021)

#93

How could something be so relatable? It’s this type of foolishness that has turned me so trigger-happy with that “X” button. I close tabs so quickly nowadays that I sometimes forget why I even visited a website in the first place, and I usually end up having to right-click and click “Reopen closed tab” to go back once I remember why. The cookie pop-ups are especially annoying—no, I don’t want your cookies!

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Re: How I Experience Web Today (2021)

#94
I searched for a guide explaining PID controllers the other day, and after the fifth full screen mobile pop up on a result I finally just gave up.

Even on your silly site I accidentally clicked allow because of the buttons switching to default positions I’m not used to.

Re: How I Experience Web Today (2021)

#95
post #85
post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also the paragraphs needs those arbitrary phrases which have been turned into links to purchase a vaguely-related product with a referral code.

And the text actually needs to be a collection of chatgpt-style bulleted lists between h1 headers

I suspect LLMs will lead to an increase in bullet-point lists from humans, simply because there's no point writing well when the audience assumes it was ghost-written for you.

Re: How I Experience Web Today (2021)

#96

I don’t get why more people don’t use Brave. It literally blocks all of these annoying things (not only ads) on mobile and desktop and it’s very easy to disable all the crap they add to make money (although I do feel bad and actually writing this made me think to donate if that is an option). Brave search is 80% as good as Google’s too.

Yeah people always complain about ads, I havent seen a single ad in years (except twitch).

Re: How I Experience Web Today (2021)

#97

I don’t get why more people don’t use Brave. It literally blocks all of these annoying things (not only ads) on mobile and desktop and it’s very easy to disable all the crap they add to make money (although I do feel bad and actually writing this made me think to donate if that is an option). Brave search is 80% as good as Google’s too.

Another option is Vivaldi, I swapped from Brave some months ago and I've been quite happy with its ad-blocking. Plus it's tons more functional IMO.

Re: How I Experience Web Today (2021)

#100
post #81
post #4

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.

Ran into this gem today: https://files.catbox.moe/bvrd6u.jpg > Google (www.google.com) is a pure search engine — no weather, no news feed, no links to sponsors, no ads, no distractions, no portal litter. > Nothing but a fast-loading search site. Reward them with a visit.

Ah, the joys of crafting an illegal monopoly, systematically abusing the society that built you up, routinely breaking laws and defying judges.

Enables you to become exactly what you got successful for NOT being. Must be great.

/s

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