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In a completely different direction - I've been getting a bit into cooking lately, and found a website called https://based.cooking and aside of the silly name, the content is great - just recipes and nothing else! Wish there was a search engine that was able to give sites like that as result, and not the current SEO junk that is being made, although they have good recipes hidden in their walls of text
IMHO, 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…
For example, say you "A/B tested" product pricing naively. I would expect demand to have a momentum component. If you set your prices to a large value abruptly, you will probably keep getting a similar sales rate for a while, until demand starts dropping over long term (could be years for all I know -- enough time for most opinions around information sources to have shifted, for example). Compare this to a strategy like Optimal Pricing[1] based on more refined methods.
Overall, I can locate at least 3 large scale problems here:
(1) Short term behavior of websites (maximizing ads, poor experience)
(2) Poor industrial coordination: surely this practice brings the entire (web) industry down. If most of what you see is plagued by ads and infinite popups, you will seek alternatives.
(3) Regulation failure. Sometimes even industrial coordination is insufficient, because joint efforts are still limited to a single domain, and not all of society. In this case usually regulation is necessary.
Privacy is great and all, but clicking a cookie disclaimer for every website seems such unnecessary friction. Most inexperienced users I've met did not know what cookies meant and couldn't make the privacy-convenience decision effectively.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_elasticity_of_demand#Opt...
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No, the business goal is to lie, trick, cheat and steal, to fuck a potential customer over so they part with their money. That the customer may not be satisfied afterwards doesn't matter - there are plenty of mitigation strategies, such as lock-in effects, playing off sunk cost fallacy, or drowning negative feedback on third-party sites with bought ratings, reviews and social media likes. Seeing a site like this shou…
You clearly don't understand capitalism. The business just provided the most value™ to the customer at that moment in time
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Someone needs to just scrape the web for light weight websites then offer a search engine just for these sites. Rid the corruption from the web please.
Did that here https://teclis.com Very fun project and still working on expanding the index. The condition to get into the index is no/low bloat/tracking/spam.
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Did that here https://teclis.com Very fun project and still working on expanding the index. The condition to get into the index is no/low bloat/tracking/spam.
I was interested to check this out but it looks like it's offline
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…
> I long for a curated list of such sites. Text only websites - https://sjmulder.nl/en/textonly.html (Disclaimer: The author has kindly included couple of my websites in the list).