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Indeed most of the content on the web is SEO fluff or veiled attempts to push an affiliate link. Worse, almost every site has a cookie “preference” popup (when
by blunte 7y ago
Indeed most of the content on the web is SEO fluff or veiled attempts to push an affiliate link.
Worse, almost every site has a cookie “preference” popup (when everyone knows the preference is just the minimum necessary cookies), a newsletter signup popup, and a browser notification request popup.
Add to that the autoplaying videos that will pop out into their own overlay if you scroll away plus the rotating ads of different sizes which cause the page content to shift up and down... oh and the fancy morphing page headers that hang down over the content you’re trying to read if you don’t scroll enough at first.
The web is currently a shitshow of comic proportions, the likes of which not even the most cynical comedians accurately predicted.
The desktop app situation isn’t as bad, but it follows a similar trend of demanding more from the hardware and user (and network) while providing less.
It might actually be better overall if mobile and desktop performance had not increased in the last decade. I swear the end user experience hasn’t on average improved even a fraction as much as the hardware capability has.
What a dismal road we are on.
- pdimitar 7y agoI still remember to this day the experience I had with the Miranda IM messenger -- I was signed it to at least 6 services (ICQ, AIM, Yahoo and a few others). 40MB of RAM during the time when 1GB RAM on an average PC became the affordable norm, no lag ever, instant rendering, everything works instantly, plus a lot of possible customisation -- themes, emoticon packs, you name it. Same with web. Search for something, get 7 useful results on the first page, get your work done in minutes. No banners, no ads, no consent popups, no constant nagging for signups. Just content and some personal expression -- which, while comical at places, is still vastly preferable to the crap show we are enduring today. Fast forward 12-15 years forward and I am absolutely amazed how awful the state of the desktop and the web is. Things are only getting worse with time.
- nine_k 7y agoMiranda was cool. I vividly remember it. I also vividly remember banner ads at that time, there were a few popular sizes. Some of the first ad-filtering proxies based their blocking algorithms on the sizes. When AdWords came it felt almost beneficial, because connections were slow and often metered. SEO tricks proliferated at the time (say, 2000), too, of more stupid sorts because search engines were not that sophisticated yet, including Google.
- shthed 7y agoIs there an adblock which removes these sites from search results?
- Rohccoo 7y agoCheck out millionshort.com