The web experience. I long back for those days where you used to be able to just type in a URL or click a link and arrive at a webpage without much fuss about i

The web experience. I long back for those days where you used to be able to just type in a URL or click a link and arrive at a webpage without much fuss about it. If the page wasn't what you were looking for, NBD, you just moved on. The experience nowadays is more like: * Google for thing XYZ, wait for some seconds until the result page layout is final due to additional crap being loaded in the background * scrolling down while mentally hiding all the crap that big G is trying to sell you * finding something that looks interesting and clicking on it * being greeted with a cookie settings popup from hell, figuring out how to get it out of the way without becoming an advertising target for the rest of your life. * Trying to find the close button for the video that starts auto-playing in some corner of the screen. * looking at the site, scrolling, getting another full-screen pop-up reminding you to subscribe to their BS newsletter or their paid service * etc.. These days I spend less time on the web than 20 years ago. Back then it was a quirky, endlessly interesting place to explore and spend hours in. Nowadays I have a hand full of sites that I visit and trust, but other than that I kind of use my computer (or phone for that matter) like it's 1990. The internet experience has become really unbearable.