How I Experience Web Today

An article I want to read is missing support for Reader View which commonly enables me to read TFA without delving into NoScript to enable js for site.com and site-related-cdn.com etc.

Re: How I Experience Web Today

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Post by solarkraft » Mon, May 29, 2023, 6:36 PM UTC

Wonderful page, I completely agree. Especially the in-page pop-ups are an atrocity that Firefox still hasn't solved, despite having announced plans to do so (any tips are welcome, this shit is unbearable).

One thing I like about lobste.rs is that it included archive links. A step further would be one that directly pipes the article through some "reader mode" site.

Re: How I Experience Web Today

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Post by voytec » Mon, May 29, 2023, 7:04 PM UTC

"Using the Internet for the 1st time" from the "Programmers are also human" YT channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq7NLMwynYg

Re: How I Experience Web Today

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Post by freediver » Mon, May 29, 2023, 7:36 PM UTC

Only if we let ad-supported business models get away with ruining the web for everyone. There are alternatives.

Re: How I Experience Web Today

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Post by jokethrowaway » Mon, May 29, 2023, 9:56 PM UTC

Popups and ads are not even a problem nowadays. They are easily blocked.

Those EU cookie shenanigans instead are pretty hard to remove. I have 3 extensions and they don't catch nowhere nearly to all of them.

Feels like internet before adblocker.