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Ads, tracking cookies, annoying JavaScript, Facebook like buttons (tracking), inane comments just to name a few. Modern websites are pretty horrible.

• krapp 13y ago
  Everything but the inane comments I can understand. If you want to avoid those, you might as well just move to a Tibetan monastery. It just seems like an odd, circuitous route to take. I would have expected him to just use Lynx or something.
  • keithpeter 13y ago
    It may be because of being able to read and formulate a response offline (Stallman seems to spend a lot of his time travelling, not all locations allow permanent wifi connections). It may also be a simple 'single firehose' approach - all tasks as email.
  • emiljbs 13y ago
    I think the "inane comments" one is a joke about /g/, they sent him a mail asking him to come and visit the site and he responded with something akin to "I did but there was only inane comments".
    • ancarda 13y ago
      Ah, somebody picked up on that. Although, I should point out I generally cringe when I see a Facebook thread or something similar at the bottom of every damn page on every site.