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Meta comment, but man the patterns are so annoying now .. I open the link, see a giant cookie preference dialog opening up on top of the content, have to click
by thegrim33 3y ago
Meta comment, but man the patterns are so annoying now .. I open the link, see a giant cookie preference dialog opening up on top of the content, have to click into it to customize cookies, figure out how this particular site decided to implement the options, ensure everything except necessary cookies is disabled, and OK the dialog away. Now I'm actually let into the article - I read the first sentence, then scroll down to read more and find out I only get three lines of the article, and have to either register or pay to get more. No, no I don't think I will, and I'll never be back.
- Panoramix 3y agoThat's nothing, most sites nowadays have all the above plus some advertisement banner plus some video on autoplay and when you get past all that, in the remaining 5% of your screen that is still dedicated for its intended purpose, you realize that the content is 80% SEO and 20% advertisement. Yesterday I was searching for a recipe and instead I contracted digital herpes. The internet is broken.
- jjulius 3y ago>The internet is broken. The pop web* is broken.
- rootusrootus 3y agoAnd on top of all that, most web sites -still- have no clue how to properly display on a mobile device. I'm not sure they even want to. The web was better on the first iphone, before web sites learned how to detect someone was on a smartphone.
- JimDabell 3y agoIt also breaks the back button.