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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
We will be paying the price for Facebook's 2017-era "Pivot to video" advice for years to come.
The creators might want to mix in some https://userinyerface.com sauce to increase realism ;-)
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We will be paying the price for Facebook's 2017-era "Pivot to video" advice for years to come.
I didn't know Facebook _advised_ publishers to pivot to video? I thought that trend started with publishers themselves noticing that video had better engagement?
> About a month ago, we found an error in the way we calculate one of the video metrics on our dashboard – average duration of video viewed. The metric should have reflected the total time spent watching a video divided by the total number of people who played the video. But it didn’t – it reflected the total time spent watching a video divided by only the number of “views” of a video (that is, when the video was watched for three or more seconds). And so the miscalculation overstated this metric. While this is only one of the many metrics marketers look at, we take any mistake seriously.
So advertisers, who had believed that video content had high engagement due to the misleading statistics, and so made business decisions based on that (laying off writers in favor of video producers), saw video view times drop 60%-80% after the fix, because the view time was inflated by all the 0.5s-1s views initiated while users were scrolling past videos and not really watching them. This was corrected in 2016 though, but perhaps many news sites, and society in general, are still feeling the effects of writing being deemphasized in favor of video.
[0]: https://www.facebook.com/business/news/facebook-video-metric...
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…
Text only websites - https://sjmulder.nl/en/textonly.html (Disclaimer: The author has kindly included couple of my websites in the list).
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That includes the vendor of my third-party Reddit app (Now for Reddit). If I tap a Reddit link from a page of search results, the link opens in the app. It's shocking that the devs of the official app don't even bother to do even this bare minimum.
Reddit is by far and away the most mismanaged site with hundreds of millions of users. I wonder what the internal politics are like. The leaks have consistently been pretty bad.
This is less-bad than the real thing. [EDIT] I think I figured out the main difference: this lets me imagine that more than 10% of the "content" isn't also SEO garbage, and has actual value. [EDIT AGAIN] What it really needs is a giant sticky header that hides when scrolling down but pops up the second you scroll up at all , obscuring all the stuff you were scrolling up to see.
javascript:(function()%7B(function%20()%20%7Bvar%20i%2C%20elements%20%3D%20document.querySelectorAll('body%20*')%3Bfor%20(i%20%3D%200%3B%20i%20%3C%20elements.length%3B%20i%2B%2B)%20%7Bif%20(getComputedStyle(elements%5Bi%5D).position%20%3D%3D%3D%20'fixed')%20%7Belements%5Bi%5D.parentNode.removeChild(elements%5Bi%5D)%3B%7D%7D%7D)()%7D)()
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…
As an alternative, there is FrogFind search engine (http://frogfind.com) for text-only websites.
Couldn't see anything annoying on Brave browser except the overlay on article page. I have much more appreciation for Brave today and how it molds my daily browsing experience.
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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.
I havent yet figured out what changed in my ublock to cause it.
After reading the comments in this post I can see some of you want curated content, others just want to explore random websites that work perfectly on all types of devices and popped into a search engine.
I've created a site that some of you may like (I'm sure it isn't what all of you are looking for) but it might be what some of you are looking for? It by no means has all the bells and whistles of a search engine but it does offer cool lesser known websites that Google fails to show us.
If you visit https://boredhoard.com/ you can give it a go and please fell free to provide feedback so that maybe I can morph it into something you guys like/want.
Will be very happy to listen