I think most websites have better UI now. Sure not all of them, but generally they are more appealing and easy to navigate from any device.
Ah yes. Before the dark times. When dragons lay sleeping.
I think they forgot to mention ads
Ok boomer
Can we please not destroy the word algorithm? It’s such a nice word…
You are the millionth visitor to this site!! Click here to claim your prize now!Let’s not fool ourselves, adverts were always there and intrusive, remember those hotbars that your parents would have 100 of installed somehow? Sure things are worse, but they were never perfect.
Sure, but we had Bonzi Buddy too. These days the best we can hope for is some AI that tells us to eat rocks.
Are Temu the ones who say “pretend you’re a billionaire” or something but their ads always have the most bizarre, undesirable-looking, nasty, cheap, plastic things in them?
Yep. That’s the ones. Or really pornographic or absurd. Cause buying more makes you feel like you have control of your life when you can buy a new shirt that dissolves when you wash it because you can’t afford to take a day off to walk around a park.
“Shop like a billionaire”
“Uh, ok”
closes Temu app, calls Sotheby’s
It’s called ublock origin and no script and one other add-on I have on icecat that blocks third-party connections. You guys can use my searxng if you want. https://liberopersempre.live/searxng
Yeah but you get it all 1000 times faster and mum can still use the phone at the same time
I think the best way to make the Internet less sh*tty is to get away from Google search.
I like the SearX search engine. It gives old-school, relevant search results, not google ranked ones.
It’s also spread out over many separate instances, so you can pick the one that best suits your search needs:
I switched to DuckDuckGo a while back and even that was beneficial. I can always tell when I’m on a different machine and I forget to switch the default search… It’s wild how fast they’ve fallen.
These days I setup ollama with open webui to host my own ai. Then you can connect Searxng to that and have the AI search the web for you and return no nonsense results.
Don’t forget cookie settings notifications and a pop up asking for you to subscribe to an email newsletter.
the biggest mistake of humanity was (and still is) javascript
Reeeeeaalllllllyyyy putting on the rose tinted goggles, here…
Yeah that’s not how I remember the early Internet.
More like gifs everywhere, wild colours, you have to have that fancy html marquee! And terrible layouts, because aligning divs is difficult.
Good timesWhy deal with float when you can use a table?
Those mouse cursor tracers lol
divs were added in the late 90’s… that is not what I’d call early internet
I mean, it may be subjective, but Internet was open to public in '93, and divs were specced in '97.
It was more of a joke anyway. The layouts were often tables long after divs if I’m not mistakenYeah, definitely subjective, but to me the early days of the web were before HTML 2 - so up to 1995.
And yeah, so many tables for a long time… Mostly because it was a bit messy to work with and had limitations, not to mention browser support requirements and a pretty fast moving sets of specs…
It was fun though.
don’t forget autoplay video and music
Landing pages, too. Often with a corny Shockwave animation.
I remember clicking on a website and getting ABSOLUTELY BOMBSRDED WITH NEVERENDING POPUPS OF HARDCORE PORN PICS AND SOUND and my parents were behind me, and you just panic reboot the computer.
I would add that if isa News website, the 1000 words article is just a verbatim copy from Reuters.
I want more info about [something happening], not to read the same article with minimal information again and again.
Ad-blocker dedectors
buy crap you don’t needed
Inrelevant information
SO MANY ADS, INRELEVANT INFORMATION, TRACKERS
It’s getting so hard to find outrelevant results these days.
