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On the contrary. Popups you could leave for later and/or close with the browser chrome, as bad as they are, are less annoying than today's modals that block the
by lmm 10mo ago
On the contrary. Popups you could leave for later and/or close with the browser chrome, as bad as they are, are less annoying than today's modals that block the site you were reading until you find the magic pixel.
- Waterluvian 10mo agoThey were so much worse. They’d basically “corrupt” your system state. They were often self replicating and so you’d have to quit the whole browser to make it stop. Sometimes even that wasn’t enough. Sometimes it would grind your PC to a halt and you’d have to reboot.
- swiftcoder 10mo agoIsn’t this mostly because browsers in that era didn’t have process isolation (and if you were on a classic Mac, there wasn’t even preemptive multitasking)?
- Jaxan 10mo agoYou shouldn’t blame it on the browsers that certain websites are malicious.
- swiftcoder 10mo agoI expect the software I use to properly sanitise untrusted inputs, yes
- Jaxan 10mo agoSure, but still, why blame (only) the browser?
- swiftcoder 10mo agoI was also blaming the OS for not having preemptive multi-tasking? And once we've blamed the OS and the browser... not sure who else is in this equation. The web developer is not in this equation, because I have no way to know their server hasn't been hacked, and hence even if I trust them personally, anything they send me is explicitly untrusted
- Lammy 10mo ago> Sometimes it would grind your PC to a halt and you’d have to reboot. Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Measure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Measure