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https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/books/review/Collins-t.ht...
This pushes my buttons indeed. But I also ran across some sites messing with the history, so they take you to a different site when you click "back". I am especially worried about pushState and replaceState. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History_API...
It's been terrible in the last year. uBlock is not detecting Youtube ads, Twitter is blocking anonymous navigation And the examples of OP are all too accurate (Business Insider, Bloomberg, Forbes, Medium, virtually any platform).
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> I long for a curated list of such sites. I don't know if this is good news but I started doing this a while back and found so many sites that it was futile to keep them in one list. These days I tend to keep them in contextual notes or databases. Also many of them fail to pass one or two annoyance tests, but I find that they're worth it anyway. For example they are not mobile friendly in some minor way, like the to…
> …but it's impressive to me just how deep the less-discovered, high quality web really is. Would that there were a search engine out there that prioritised the indexing of these high quality ‘well behaved’ sites.
All those dynamic moving fancy interactive elements are great for actual applications. But as a solution for transmitting plain old information, web technology is now a raging garbage fire. I’ve stopped publishing my site in HTML at all.
The web needs to rediscover document formats.
An admirable attempt. But nowhere near sufficient. - Not NEARLY enough link-litter (social links). - No Taboola Chumbox. SAD! PATHETIC!!! - Needs a CTA interruption about 15--30s after landing on the payload page. - Needs a useless hero image. - Needs more interstitial nags within the article itself. In bold and annoying context. - Needs more social links after the byline. Yes, today's web is an utter and complete cl…
- CAPTCHA - cloudflare redirections - Affiliate links to Amazon ... to read a minimally informative article.
- Carousel
- Pagination
- "Click for full article" link
- Autoplay video
- Separate autoplay background audio.
This... I absolutely Abhor what the web has become. Somehow, we need a new web (maybe out of the blockchain related work/distributed internet endeavors?) The current state is sooo bad.
Check Gemini network. Far from being the network that will replace the web (and that’s not even a goal), it’s really… interesting.
So true, so sad. These days, when even a few hurdles of crap present themselves, I often just leave. I don’t care what the site has to say or sell me. Whenever I come across a site that just displays content immediately, it fills me with joy. Usually it’s some obscure personal or academic site, but for a moment I feel like I’ve found a gem in the desert and I browse happily for a while…then I promptly add to a list o…