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Yes please! I'm so tired of all the annoying bloat all over the web that makes (not only) older browsers die just thinking about visiting the sites. It looks li
by Aoyagi 11y ago
Yes please! I'm so tired of all the annoying bloat all over the web that makes (not only) older browsers die just thinking about visiting the sites. It looks like the "progress" nowadays is going for "more complex and resource-demanding with less features and control".
- Goladus 11y ago> less features and control Oh there is more control. Just not for you, the user.
- Goladus 11y agops for the downvoter: My comment is entirely serious. Breaking the web for fun and profit, 101: The simplest example I can think of is the fact that in a standard google web search, "copy link address" does not give you the actual destination address, rather a google tracking link. Another: Image attachments in gmail. Now there's this overlay that asks you whether to download, open in google drive, or view in the gmail image viewer (which conveniently has interfaces with a bunch of other google apps I don't care about). Now you might think the google image viewer is nice, but personally I liked my once-upon-a-time ability to just look at images directly in my browser with a single click. So I gain nothing, google gains everything. They are wresting control of how I access my files, every step of the way.
- Aoyagi 11y agoAbout the link thing, DDG uses it as well, but it presents it as "Redirect - Prevent sharing of your search with sites you click on". Although in case of DDG, you can disable that.
- derf_ 11y agoGreasemonkey script to restore direct links: https://gist.github.com/astanin/3782408 https://gist.github.com/astanin/3782408 It was worth it to me to install Greasemonkey for this script alone.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoI'm increasingly seeing Greasemonkey as a tool for unfucking the web. I've already started writing simple tweaks to the banking UI I use.