Porn sites used to be the worst offenders with popups etc, ironically they are MUCH better than most newspapers now. No wonder people are watching more porn.
How I Experience Web Today
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#132They forgot search ads!
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#133I thought the popup with Changes you made may not be saved. when hitting the back button was a nice tough. All of this is 100% true. I rarely make it all the way through the soft content barriers sites that really do this. I agree with others, this works too well and isn't nearly as bad as the real thing.
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#134This 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...
Wait, can any webdevs explain a legitimate use for these features? Because my (admittedly uninformed) mind can only think of bad uses...
Routing in single-page applications relies heavily on the history API I think.
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#135An 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…
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#136The very last thing that I saw on this site got me to laugh out loud. I'll leave it at that to not ruin it. Genius.
same :) came here to see if anyone else had commented on it
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#137This 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...
Is it just me or has Youtube screwed something up here? About 1/3rd chance that the back button doesn't do anything on the last Youtube page in Safari.
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
Check Gemini network. Far from being the network that will replace the web (and that’s not even a goal), it’s really… interesting.
Can you provide a link? A quick google just returned a bunch of links to what looked like an alt-coin. There's an app called "Gemini Network", but the screenshot looked like a crypto marketplace.
Of course :) There it is : https://gemini.circumlunar.space/
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#139So 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…
This is why I love the gemini space. It feels ... unadulterated somehow.
Gemini is awesome, but it's lack of ambition is what really kills it for me. I appreciate their minimalist take on the web, but if their implementation is less robust than what we currently have, I have very little incentive to host a site there.
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#140I had to turn ublock off to keep going after the first click, which is in fact an accurate depiction of the web experience.
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