Internet frustration
Am I the only getting increasingly annoyed at how difficult is becoming to... simply read a page?
1. Notifications: it might be the first and only time I visit a site, I don't want to turn on their notifications. Nor waste time saying no.
2. ''Accept/manage cookies'', every single time.
3. Ads. Even adblockers don't always work. You now have to wait between 5 and 30 seconds to see something.
4. Subscribe to our newsletter.
5. Or buy a subscription to our newspaper for reading 10 articles in a year, otherwise they are payblocked.
Only then you can finally read what you were looking for, often just to find out it's just an eye-catching headline.
Obviously, this isn't enough. Google has become garbage. Have a random software glitch issue due to your hardware combinations? Years ago, by picking accurate terms, you'd easily find forums with people who experienced the same issue and sort it out.
Now:
- faqs that are dumb beyond belief, like ''is the sky blue?''. The ''answers'' picked by google are even dumber.
- first 2 pages of results are recommended links paid by those websites, none of which help in any way as they are filled with generic help like reboot or clean your cookies
- more ads. Do you have a minor software glitch? Buy another phone!
- heavy politicization: want to read about the Saladin-Byzantine alliance against the third crusade? Here's CNN about ''how the alt right appropriated the crusades''
And as always, you know whose fault it is.
sup bro, my internet browsing has gotten significantly easier since I've switched to brave, duckduckgo, and have zero social media
I occasionally use duckduckgo when google is particularly abysmal, something that's becoming increasingly more common. Yandex isn't bad either. Brave, I don't know. Tried it years ago, it had too many bugs. I use a mix of firefox and edge.
Sadly, none of this particularly helps with the first part of the problem, every time you open a page, you have to go through notifications, cookies, subscriptions and occasional ads.
hmm, maybe what I'm browsing, but I've noticed a big improvement in ads/cookies/subscription requests since moving to brave, and never see notification requests or popups
It is politics. Pretty simple.
+1 for Brave. the upside of Chrome but with great tracker / cookie-blocking built in (and if it breaks the site for some reason you can temporarily disable it)
Brave is the best. Online advertising is a cancer and they are the cure. Only time I don't use DuckDuckGo is for work.
I’m mostly on my iPhone in Safari - I don’t get any of these issues.
Only issue I have is sometimes I post something and click edit after posting and it doesn’t work, then refresh the page and it works after that.
You're trying up these fucking diatribes with your thumbs???
Yeah iPhone only. No computer.
Use uBlock Origin and Bypass Paywalls (https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome )
Browsing the internet from a phone in 2021 has become basically impossible. Banners, ads, popups, etc. have basically ruined the experience. Browsing from a desktop isn't much better. I use adblockers, overlay blockers, notification blockers, cookie blockers and it's all I can do to not have shit shoved down my throat constantly.
I used a friend's computer recently who doesn't block ads and it was a miserable experience. Crazy that there are people out there that don't use adblockers by default. I get a new computer and the first thing I do is install an adblocker. I fucking hate how monetized the internet has become.
Should have specified it's far worse from the phone, and indeed, on point
That is pretty much true everywhere. Something like 70% of all internet advertising goes to one of 3 places. Google, Facebook, and Amazon.
Hoping that blockchain can hopefully eventually help with this!
Brave has the option for granting micro payments to websites you frequent. I would gladly load my account and make small payments to avoid paywalls or ads.
Would be a solid way for companies to still make money while giving a better user experience.
Checkout podcasting 2.0
Aside from me doing my own googling - do you have any particular things to check out about podcasting 2.0 that are worth checking out?
i thought the title said "intern frustration" and i was like yeah fuck interns, brad just called the other interns pledges the other day
The internet peaked around 2010.
Honestly think it peaked with the meme wars 2015-16. Wasted for Caligola rather than a Julius Caesar
The Meme Wars were great, but the corporatization and censorship was already starting to ramp up. I miss the Wild West days of the internet when it was considered stupid to put your real name anywhere online and instead you had to seek answers from people named "soccerfan92".
Wouldn´t that be pre-facebook?
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