It was only last year I actually read that book and it surprised me. I knew the very general outline of the story but the whole theme of people watching their "screens" and the chaotic narratives they were subjected to / sought out and the superficiality of their narratives was much more prescient than I anticipated. The whole thing was a hybrid of Brave New World and 1984 combining elements of both.
There are a few sites that do this. It usually works via the HTTP Accept header. When loading an embedded image, your browser will tell the server that it only wants images, but if you merely open the page, it will say that HTML is acceptable too - so the server then "helpfully" returns the full (HTML) page when you try to open the image directly. If you have a browser extension like HTTP Header Mangler, you can modify your Accept header for the offending pages to only accept images, like this:
i\.redd\.it
Accept=image/*I've noticed that too. Clickbait-y titles of long meandering videos that don't get to the point, focus too much on one thing, or even argue something different from title.
the sensible way: "If something can be done without JavaScript, it should be done without JavaScript."
I recently ran into a website that didn't allow you to select text - it interpreted the drag as a smartphone swipe and switched pages whenever you tried. I don't really get how this happens. Even if the retard who made this uses his overpriced surveillance toy for almost everything, surely he developed the site on a proper computer?
Despite emphasis on progress in the modern world, that "smartphone" flat look is something that could be done with '80s or '90s CG (at least aside from the antialiasing).
Yup I'm locked out of my old Yahoo accounts because they all require other locked Yahoo acounts to access them.
That is especially annoying if you have multiple monitors and was using something else then have to put focus on that window. Accidentally clicking inside the window can be a disaster that resets the fucking infinite scrolling because clicking any text opens the post, clicking on the sides of the text switches to [???]. It's best to click on the scrollbar or another piece of the browser to ground yourself... but sometimes you forget.
720p videos look lke 180p on youtube most of the time now and I fucking know it's not me "getting used to 4k/8k" because I've saved shit to my computer in the past and the playback and files on youtube are significantly crustier now than the copies of the same videos friends have downloaded a few years ago.
