is there a way to block those GDPR popups?
How I Experience Web Today
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#252Earlier 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...
I doubt they ever went obsolete, insofar as they are essentially categorized lists of links to things...but from a more cultural/ephemeral viewpoint they do hit different. :-)
In my experience, the more subjective they are, the better, so I'm not sure I'd have much use for the generalized kind anymore. The criteria can be way too loose if you're looking to meet a qualitative standard...
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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 used NoScript heavily for years. No ads on Youtube all that time. A couple of months ago something went wrong and I started seeing ads again (wow, that was literally a headache for me). No matter how I configured No Script, I still wasn't able to get rid of the ads. After trying uBlock - because a lot of people here recommended it - it works fine again.
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#254IMHO, I think everyone here is missing the big point: all these "features" are being pushed to the web because A/B tests say so. The usual way things go is: - option 1: don't add feature X - option 2: add feature X - option 3: add feature X slightly modified So, since option 1 is not an option at all (businesses want to grow; they don't want "stable software", they want to push features live every sprint), then lean…
I have not worked in any company doing ab tests like that, it is always base vs variant. Option 1 vs option 2/3 and then if the feature wins, you can try option 2 vs option 3, if not they would scrap it, or blame it on the implementation and keep retrying until they either get false positive, or survivor bias makes it positive.
I am not defending it as I also believe that ab tests ruin the web, but if anyone does option2/3 at start they are not doing AB test at all.
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This is not the case. At least it wasn't the case in the late nineties and early naughts. The web then was full of banner and popup and pop under ads (punch the monkey, remember?). Google was a breath of fresh air then with a clean site and text only ads. No question they strayed from that early vision but they are still far from the worst offenders.
> but they are still far from the worst offenders. Maybe in the type of ads they show. But don't forget increasingly garbage search results that are also indirectly related to the whole ad-tech business they facilitate.
Which search engine do you find shows better search results? I keep coming back to Google because no one else even comes close to the quality of search results.
That was true even more so when Google started out. Their competition was Yahoo and AltaVista, which were practically useless. I'd argue that Google has done a lot for the web. But I can agree with the sentiment that they took a turn for the worse at some point.
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#256Honestly the site is way too performant to be realistic. All those buttons worked nearly instantly. I'm assuming you're missing the awaited tracking networking calls.
and the "no" button on the cookie prompt didn't open another page with 50 radio inputs, and an intentionally oddly placed reject all (or none at all)
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uBO and sponsorblock work for me. Have you updated your lists? On my phone I use NewPipe+SB. I use privacy redirect to go to nitter.
I think he means the ad thumbnails, not the in-video ads themselves. Ublock hasn't been able to hide them for a while now.
what ad thumbnails? I haven't been getting any ads of any kind, I don't think
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I think he means the ad thumbnails, not the in-video ads themselves. Ublock hasn't been able to hide them for a while now.
I find the in-video ads annoying and now they circumvent uBlock. Current strategy is to turn down the volume and scroll down to the comments / look away for 10 seconds. Ads are very irritating
check out sponsorblock, it's a crowdfunded database of in-video ad timestamps to skip over them:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-y...
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#259They missed the auto playing videos that follow the page as you scroll with sounds on and need to be manually stopped, and download 50 mb without my permission.
I agree with the idea. Miss a regular non intrusive web experience too much. The only place I usually find it is here on HN.
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#260So 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 a dead end.
If it was backwards compatible with gopher, with added TLS I might even consider it a good idea, but this is just plain text with links.
The true power of web used to be self expression. This is why geoticies was a big thing, why myspace worked, and why Flash defined an era.
It's not a great idea to reduce options for creativity; instead, we should encourage it again.