uBlock Origin blocks all of this. Everyone should install it. Everyone.
How I Experience Web Today
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#202The 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.
Go ahead and ruin it for me. I got as far as a fake article with two giant text boxes that couldn't be closed and had non-working send/submit buttons. If anything exists past this, it isn't loading for me.
Switch tabs and then switch back.
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#203uBlock Origin blocks all of this. Everyone should install it. Everyone.
it really doesn't
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#204Regarding partially paywalled articles, I just use one of several tricks:
1. Firefox reader mode. Sometimes that is enough. Switch to reader mode, reload.
2. Stopping the incomplete page load. May require several attempts.
3. Some combination of 1 and 2.
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#205So 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…
> 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. I find that disabling JavaScript often helps. I have it enabled by default, but disable it in uBlock on a per-site basis if some crap pops up. A lot of the times that fixes things. For example for some reason the BBC thinks it's helpful to display a big fat "Register for an account t…
I tried disabling Javascript by default, but there are too many important sites that require it.
My browser's "disable javascript" extension can disable on a per-domain basis, but really what I'd like is on a per-URL-pattern basis, so that is disabled but not .
Sometimes disabling scripts is not enough, so I also disable CSS. This makes images huge at the top of the page (navigation icons, etc.). So, then I disable images as well. Then there are huge vector graphics of some kind; I can't tell if it's SVG not counting as an image, or just really large font sans CSS to size it.
Maybe one of these days I'll write a "no bullshit" firefox extension that carefully applies these restrictions except for in a user-defined allow list.
edit: oh yeah, I could call it "reader mode." Hm...
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#206So 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…
I started just leaving as well. If uBlock Origin failed for any reason I just closed the tab.
Now this site is the only one I still actively browse.
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#207So 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.
Are you talking about this?
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#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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…
My god, the web has become so garbage that we're going back to web directories...
Maybe we should have never left. It's Google search and their advertising that destroyed the web we all used to enjoy.
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#209Idea: What if we had a search engine that would search only web sites without ads... It could have some type of "readability / usability / user friendliness rating" (score 0-10) ...
wiby.me is an interesting one.
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#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am not seeing any autoplaying videos unrelated to the article that pop into a PIP window in the bottom of the screen as you scroll causing the amount that you've scrolled to jump so you lose your place
I have no idea how anyone browses the web without NoScript.
I had used uBlock Origin for years and years but recently had it with paywalls. Installed NoScript and took a few days to manually OK the stuff I need. Now during a work day, I find I OK something here or there but it’s made everything so much faster and cleaner. I can’t go back.