Modern Web Woes - I'm mad at the internet

[prollyanotherlurker]

YouTube has a tendency to bury any videos that don't have a large footprint of some kind.

Idk about in search. I'm sure you are right.

Lately in my recommended though. I have been getting random 0-500 view videos. Which I actually love. I always watch them when I get one. Because you can find some nice old YouTube style gold in those.

Comments are a shitshow half the time on Youtube, even back then. But they represented a discourse, something genuine, that you do not find much anymore on modern comment sections, sanitized as they are now.

That's the thing about YouTube comments. And what keeps holding on to my account. YouTube is slowly ruining the comment section with the automated moderation that seemingly randomly shadowbans comments without rhyme or reason. Like I've said offensive stuff, but I have also had completely harmless, neutral if anything comments just disappear.

But besides that. I love YouTube comment sections. I always go down to them. Will go through some of the threads. See arguments about the most random details that go on for 50+ replies. One of my favorite genres for it is construction/home improvement/any kind of bluecollar shorts. You already know the comments are going to be crazy right away. Arguing about everything.

It's something I do actually hope doesn't die off. But YouTubers track record shows, they don't actually care about the "product" they provide. Because the product they are selling is advertising. The thing is. You would think if they wanted advertisers to keep throwing them money, they would make people want to watch stuff through their platform and not hate them. Just because we aren't the ones they care about. It seems smart to at least do it out of greed.

 

[teriyakiburns]

I have also had completely harmless, neutral if anything comments just disappear.

My youtube account is the most milquetoast of bland nothings; a couple of cat videos and some random shit with nothing that would offend even the stuffiest Mildred. Despite this, every single comment I make is instantly deleted or otherwise hidden. Doesn't matter what I say, and I've never said anything more than the most basic "this is cool" or asking some question about something I'm interested in, they all disappear. Meanwhile, spam bots, impersonators, and crypto scammers seem able to post with impunity.

I wonder if it's because I'm ginger...

 

[Verpa Teutonica Ingens]

My youtube account is the most milquetoast of bland nothings; a couple of cat videos and some random shit with nothing that would offend even the stuffiest Mildred. Despite this, every single comment I make is instantly deleted or otherwise hidden. Doesn't matter what I say, and I've never said anything more than the most basic "this is cool" or asking some question about something I'm interested in, they all disappear. Meanwhile, spam bots, impersonators, and crypto scammers seem able to post with impunity.

I wonder if it's because I'm ginger...

It could be the fact that you don't fellate trooncock. Lack of opposition isn't sufficient by the cinaedolatry cult's standards, only vigorous support would exonerate you of dissidence.

 

[Zeftax]

The shitposts on there stopped being funny a long ass time ago, there's bugger all decent technical threads for when you're troubleshooting something and it's just extremely gay.

I think we are returning to the good old days of good info only being on independent specialized forums and IRC. These aggregators like reddit or stackoverflow promised greatness and then fell terribly, most likely in pursuit of making more profit for the investors.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

But it's disheartening to know that many videos even in my favorites are just gone in one form or another.

Is it part of some BS push to "create an endless present" -- to "cancel" the "problematic" world before Current Year? Seems that way.

 

[Tequila Jong]

Fuck you.

 

[TORtlEMUStRaNSUS]

I have been think back to the YouTube conversion from flash to HTML5. Back when you had to opt in it felt like a huge upgrade. HTML5 has so much, we won't need things like Javascript and Flash slowing load times down.

But look where we are now...

 

[Nitro!]

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Fuck you.

It's my favorite time of year, when I get to remind everyone that the Wikimedia Foundation absolutely, positively does not need donations and never have. Fuck 'em is right.

 

[DavidS877]

It's my favorite time of year, when I get to remind everyone that the Wikimedia Foundation absolutely, positively does not need donations and never have. Fuck 'em is right.

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I like this view better.

106 MILLION DOLLARS in salary and benefits.
Internet hosting, the stuff they actually do is nearly the lowest expense they have.

 

[Womble of Wimbledon]

Fucking Steam. Haven't used it since about 2014 but I really wanted to play a nostalgic game which I couldn't find a torrent for.

Signed up, bought the game for like a buck fifty, played through in one sitting. Happy.

I was thinking about buying another one which can't be cracked at the moment, but my account had been locked due to fraudulent activity being detected. What?

Went back and forth with the Steam support hags for a few days but ultimately couldn't get the account unlocked until they had my:
- credit card number (last four digits only please!)
- full cardholder details including home address
- personal phone number

Then once they have it the support hag says they have realised the activity on my account was clearly not fraudulent. Yeah, no shit. I'm certain they just do this to get as much personal data on you as they can. And all because I wanted to play a stupid computer game I already bought like 25 years ago!

 

[DavidS877]

Signed up, bought the game for like a buck fifty, played through in one sitting. Happy.

That's a pretty common tell for stolen credit cards to buy something cheap and see if they work.

But their system should have noticed you actually played the game, which should remove the possibly fraud flag.

You don't hate payment processors and associated companies enough.

 

[mr_negativity]

{{wikipedia begging image}}

Fuck you.

Ublock origin and Brave shields really need to add Wikipedia donations banners to the default blocking rules.

Wikipedia won't even give the public an obvious way to dismiss the banners for the remainder of the campaign. If you click "I've already donated" it only stops the banner for a limited period of time in their yearly multi month campaign. Actual donors aren't even spared the annoying banners for long.

 

[WTBOnlineFather]

Ublock origin and Brave shields really need to add Wikipedia donations banners to the default blocking rules.

Wikipedia won't even give the public an obvious way to dismiss the banners for the remainder of the campaign. If you click "I've already donated" it only stops the banner for a limited period of time in their yearly multi month campaign. Actual donors aren't even spared the annoying banners for long.

It should be a matter of principle. Wiki(m|p)edia is a thinly veiled political organization and condones politically motivated censorship and revisionism on their website, but at the same time they have no shame about begging the same people whom they revile for donations, under false pretenses no less. Fuck them. This is the exact kind of cancer that is slowly spreading to everything that is open, free, community-managed, and not just online either.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Is it just me or are more and more websites getting "Cloudflare'd" with "Bad gateway" or "Connection timed out" errors?

Good thing KF doesn't run on Cloudflare anymore BTW. Some good came out of the "exceptional" "#DropKiwiFarms" campaign.

 

[gibbslets]

Is it just me or are more and more websites getting "Cloudflare'd" with "Bad gateway" or "Connection timed out" errors?

Good thing KF doesn't run on Cloudflare anymore BTW. Some good came out of the "exceptional" "#DropKiwiFarms" campaign.

now that you mention it, I've noticed this too. Is this CF trying to ransom their customers with fake ddos to upgrade their plans?

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Fuck you.

There should be a law that requires the beg banners to have another button which lets you take $2.75 away from wikimedia and send it nowhere if they're going to beg for $2.75

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Fuck you.

Seems I don't get those e-begging popups on non-English Wikipedia, oddly enough. Also, turning JavaScript off disables that popup BS.

Which brings me to another example of 'net BS: people making it harder to turn JavaScript off. It is in "Advanced Preferences" in FF.

(about:config --> javascript.enabled set to false)

 

[Kosher Dill]

Which brings me to another example of 'net BS: people making it harder to turn JavaScript off.

I dunno, given how much JS negritude has already infected the web, turning JS off globally probably should be behind a Yes, do as I say! barrier.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

I think we are returning to the good old days of good info only being on independent specialized forums and IRC. These aggregators like reddit or stackoverflow promised greatness and then fell terribly, most likely in pursuit of making more profit for the investors.

Not so sure about stack, but Reddit was great.

You could find any answer to anything, interesting people, etc...

People weren't the redditors they are today or tranny retards. It was genuinely good.

But it slowly got corrupted, people were kicked out, and corpos took over...

 

[ToroidalBoat]

now that you mention it, I've noticed this too.

Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay 120k$ within 24h : CloudFlare (from Reddit 6 months ago)

We've been on the Cloudflare Business plan ($250/month) for years. They suddenly contacted us and asked us to either pay them $120k up front for one year of Enterprise within 24 hours or they would take down all of our domains. While this escalated up our business we had 3 sales calls with them, trying to figure out what was happening and how to reach a reasonable contract in a week. When we told them we were also in talks with Fastly, they suddenly "purged" all our domains, causing huge downtime in our core business, sleepless nights migrating away from CF, irreparable loss in customer trust and weeks of ongoing downtime in our internal systems.

- Cloudflare took down our website after trying to force us to pay 120k$ within 24h (on Substack on May 26, 2024)

 

[MoarTard]

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Fuck you.

is there a way to modify the CSS or html to prevent them from showing up?