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The irony of posting this link, when for me the site doesn't even work because techcrunch.com redirects via guce.advertising.com which doesn't dns resolve. It'
by kybernetikos 6y ago
The irony of posting this link, when for me the site doesn't even work because techcrunch.com redirects via guce.advertising.com which doesn't dns resolve.
It's annoying, but it's not too bad, because after having looked at their deceptive, user-hostile (and in my opinion illegal in the EU) practices, I'm pretty resigned to never going to another oath/guce site again.
It's sites like techcrunch and their siblings that are breaking the internet.
- ultrarunner 6y agoI thought it was pretty ironic that an article about fixing the internet was on a site that broke my back button.
- s_gourichon 6y agoFeels ironic, could be considered "meta", that the link goes to techcrunch and my screen shows: > uMatrix has prevented the following page from loading: > https://guce.advertising.com/collectIdentifiers?sessionId=.. https://guce.advertising.com/collectIdentifiers?sessionId=... Yes, there is a dire need for fixing the Internet. Oh, by the way, remember, when fixing the Internet tools and protocols... The following sentence was written thinking of aircraft hull design, isn't a browser some kind of "netcraft" that has become too complicated and needs a redesign? "It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry)