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I don't want an X account, so X links are useless to me. I don't subscribe to subscriptions, so NYT links etc... useless to me. I block privacy-abusing domain

I don't want an X account, so X links are useless to me. I don't subscribe to subscriptions, so NYT links etc... useless to me. I block privacy-abusing domains... AlphaGoogle links etc are inaccessible. I won't disable my adblocker... many commercial sites linked here no good to me. No Chrome browser... many other sites here don't work. Maybe it's crazy to expect the net to contain interesting websites that don't have wall-to-wall ads, tracking, require a subscription, or are limited to one specific browser. On the other hand, the web is an order of magnitude larger today than when I used to find such sites. If it were up to me, each link on HN would have a 'bad ux flag' button, and account settings would have a 'hide bad ux' filter. Then I would have the choice to browse HN without sifting through bad links myself.

LorenDB 2y ago
> I don't want an X account, so X links are practically useless to me. And yet individual tweets can be read without an account. Of course, that doesn't work in this case as you will only see the first tweet in the thread, but you still can read a lot of HN submissions from Twitter.
- thomassmith65 2y ago
  True, but mostly if I find a tweet worth a click, it's a long enough tweet that its author split it into several parts... of which I can read only the first.
- lolinder 2y ago
  Nearly every tweet linked from HN is part of a thread because it's actually a blog post by someone who couldn't be bothered to have a proper blog.
katzinsky 2y ago
>each link on HN would have a 'bad ux flag' button Do they check the github for PRs? That might be worth learning Arc for.