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This feels like the trillionth time I read a rant like this, but that doesn't make it less true or important. I really wonder from time to time if it's just me

This feels like the trillionth time I read a rant like this, but that doesn't make it less true or important. I really wonder from time to time if it's just me, having become and old grumpy "get off my lawn" grandpa unable to cope with the world keeping turning and moving forward. "You can't write everything from scratch every time" "That's just how it's done today" "Cmon, people aren't running IE5 on a pentium 2 anymore" "SPAs are so much better UX. Everything should be an SPA!" heavy breathing with red face It's funny how this guy is complaining about a 7 year old laptop; any non-flagship mobile device from 4 years ago is almost unusable on the web.

zzzcpan 8y ago
As long as advertising corporations keep control of your web browser, the experience will always be optimized for ad tech and maybe some other megacorp interests, but definitely not for you. That's the problem. I imagine a web browser actually made for the user will try hard to extract content from web pages by default, render them with decent consistent UX and not blindly let third parties display and execute any crap they want. There is no reason to render say articles with comments in thousand different ways for thousand websites. And no reason it can't be blazing fast on RaspberryPi.
- narag 8y ago
  Agreed, current add-ons are clearly not enough.
narag 8y ago
I really wonder from time to time if it's just me, having become and old grumpy "get off my lawn" grandpa... I don't think it's just you. At the very least, us :-) Seriously, I think there are different kinds of people that don't care: - Most. They don't know it could be done otherwise. For them bloat is the way web is. - People that likes bloat. It's obvious if you can see how they dress or their furniture. - People that works making those websites. There are a lot of them here, so don't expect many upvotes. - People that repeats what others say: the phrases that make your breath heavy. I believe that at some moment in the future, there will be a swing to simplicity, because fashion if for no other reason.

zzzcpan 8y ago

As long as advertising corporations keep control of your web browser, the experience will always be optimized for ad tech and maybe some other megacorp interests, but definitely not for you. That's the problem. I imagine a web browser actually made for the user will try hard to extract content from web pages by default, render them with decent consistent UX and not blindly let third parties display and execute any crap they want. There is no reason to render say articles with comments in thousand different ways for thousand websites. And no reason it can't be blazing fast on RaspberryPi.

narag 8y ago
Agreed, current add-ons are clearly not enough.

narag 8y ago

I really wonder from time to time if it's just me, having become and old grumpy "get off my lawn" grandpa... I don't think it's just you. At the very least, us :-) Seriously, I think there are different kinds of people that don't care: - Most. They don't know it could be done otherwise. For them bloat is the way web is. - People that likes bloat. It's obvious if you can see how they dress or their furniture. - People that works making those websites. There are a lot of them here, so don't expect many upvotes. - People that repeats what others say: the phrases that make your breath heavy. I believe that at some moment in the future, there will be a swing to simplicity, because fashion if for no other reason.