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Post by fixxation92 » Mon, Mar 16, 2026, 10:25 AM UTC

Post by basilikum » Mon, Mar 16, 2026, 10:31 AM UTC

chrneu wrote: post #194

gxs wrote: post #84

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I’m honestly dumbfounded that these exist In the past some site had light versions, but I haven’t come across one in over 10 years Makes me wonder if this isn’t just some rogue employee maintaining this without anyone else realizing it It’s the light version, but ironically I would happily pay these ad networks a monthly $20 to just serve these lite pages and not track me. They don’t make anywhere close to that from…

a lot of these are internal tools that they just haven't disabled access to for whatever reason. old.reddit still exists for whatever reason.

Post by basilikum » Mon, Mar 16, 2026, 10:38 AM UTC

snickerer wrote: post #107

Allowing scripting on websites (in the mid-90s) was a completely wrong decision. And an outrage. Programs are downloaded to my computer and executed without me being able to review them first—or rely on audits by people I trust. That’s completely unacceptable; it’s fundamentally flawed. Of course, you disable scripts on websites. But there are sites that are so broken that they no longer work properly, since the deve…

Post by eitau_1 » Mon, Mar 16, 2026, 10:47 AM UTC

userbinator wrote: post #186

jiggawatts wrote: post #162

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For me personally the most infuriating example of this is the Azure Updates[1] page, which in my job I need to check nearly daily to see what's reaching EoL, what's new, etc... A couple of years ago they redeveloped it as a SPA app. The original server-rendered version of it worked just fine , but it "had" to be made into an interactive client-side monstrosity that loads many times slower for "reasons". It doesn't ev…

GitHub also got infected with this horrible "JS SPA" disease shortly after MS bought them. Now you can't even browse files or view issues without it. If they can't get it right, who can!? Berkshire Hathaway, apparently: https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/ Pure content, not fluff, and even has a small but unobtrusive ad.

Post by lentil_soup » Mon, Mar 16, 2026, 10:49 AM UTC

monkey_monkey wrote: post #98

hobs wrote: post #88

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I didn't say anything about their development abilities, what I am pointing to is their professional responsibility. If a doctor is asked by a client to cut off their arm and they say no, and the client fires them, did the doctor err? (No) This doesn't comment on their ability to do surgery.

So just to check, instead of doing something you were told to, that you know is a stupid idea (after telling all concerned it's a dumb idea and being told to go ahead anyway, eg adding a crapton of video to a page), you would just resign, to protect your personal integrity?