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. 

 

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.

Never discuss with idiots, first they drag you at their level, then they beat you with experience.
 

+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)

“Doesn't really mean shit plebby boi. LMK when you're pulling thiccboi cheques.“ — @m_1
 

Brave is the best. Online advertising is a cancer and they are the cure. Only time I don't use DuckDuckGo is for work. 

"The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly" - Robert A. Wilson | "If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything" - Winston Churchill | "It's a testament to the sheer belligerence of the profession that people would rather argue about the 'risk-adjusted returns' of using inferior tooth cleaning methods." - kellycriterion
 

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.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

Yeah iPhone only. No computer. 

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

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

Never discuss with idiots, first they drag you at their level, then they beat you with experience.
 

Honestly think it peaked with the meme wars 2015-16. Wasted for Caligola rather than a Julius Caesar

Never discuss with idiots, first they drag you at their level, then they beat you with experience.
 

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".

"Work ethic, work ethic" - Vince Vaughn
 

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