Modern Web Woes - I'm mad at the internet

[Fagnacious D]

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...

You're making the old internet sound like some sort of tolkien-esque fantasy world

in days of yore, the realm of Reddit was vastly different from the one we behold now. Once, it stood as a beacon of knowledge, a treasure trove of wisdom and curiosities. Yet, as ages passed, the hearts of its denizens grew dark, succumbing to the treacherous allure of greed and the unquenchable thirst for desire. Thus, the once vibrant and enlightening haven has been tarnished, its purity forever lost to the shadows of corruption.

 

[QQQ]

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

You could try Stylus

 

[Tequila Jong]

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I'm really not that fussed over the actual begging or the banner itself, it's a mild irritation, but one they've been doing for years now. My gripe with that banner in particular is the message itself, essentially this:

Wiki(m|p)edia is a thinly veiled political organization and condones politically motivated censorship and revisionism on their website...

...This is the exact kind of cancer that is slowly spreading to everything that is open, free, community-managed, and not just online either.

Wikipedia has the absolute nerve to use the words "The internet we were promised - a place of free, collaborative, and accessible knowledge - is under constant threat", when their total censorship and revisionism are a perfect example of they themselves being a large part of said constant threat. It's the sheer size of the lie they're selling that makes me MATI.

 

[Oceanic Navigator]

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!

inb4 "my username was (blatantly offensive bait account username) and I went on a ban speedrun. I have no idea what I did wrong. I actually dont give a shit about steam or being banned anyway *burp*." or some other concern trolling bullshit. Just to undermine actual victims of moderator abuse that is such an epidemic we have a community watch section. Steam is especially full of these kinds of malicious retards.

 

[y a t s]

Imma fucking throw something



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[Megaton Punch]

You're making the old internet sound like some sort of tolkien-esque fantasy world

in days of yore, the realm of Reddit was vastly different from the one we behold now. Once, it stood as a beacon of knowledge, a treasure trove of wisdom and curiosities. Yet, as ages passed, the hearts of its denizens grew dark, succumbing to the treacherous allure of greed and the unquenchable thirst for desire. Thus, the once vibrant and enlightening haven has been tarnished, its purity forever lost to the shadows of corruption.

I mean...it really was. The internet circa 2000 would be completely incomprehensible to anyone whose only familiarity with the internet is via apps and email clients. The entire thing had the same energy as KF but less jaded. You could say or do anything you wanted and nothing bad would happen because the entire thing wasn't locked down by power jannies who were under the control of a government agency. Moderation existed, but it existed to remove only things that were illegal, and because the mods were enthusiasts like the rest of us, they did their jobs well.

The loss of pre-corporate internet is one of the greatest tragedies in human history.

 

[ZMOT]

inb4 "my username was (blatantly offensive bait account username) and I went on a ban speedrun. I have no idea what I did wrong. I actually dont give a shit about steam or being banned anyway *burp*." or some other concern trolling bullshit. Just to undermine actual victims of moderator abuse that is such an epidemic we have a community watch section. Steam is especially full of these kinds of malicious retards.

as @davids877 mentioned, it was probably triggering fraud protection. sucks but there's not much else that can be done with all the criminal activity happening. just like everywhere else, majority has to suffer under a few bad apples.
contacting support should fix it.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

The recent KF downtime reminded me of how it seems that websites in general are getting outages more these days. More "bad gateway" this and "connection timed out" that BS.

It also seems like "Cloudflare" has a monopoly going on. Are any websites -- which are not Kiwi Farms -- not running on "Cloudflare"?

 

[GNU Abyss]

The recent KF downtime reminded me of how it seems that websites in general are getting outages more these days. More "bad gateway" this and "connection timed out" that BS.

It also seems like "Cloudflare" has a monopoly going on. Are any websites -- which are not Kiwi Farms -- not running on "Cloudflare"?

That's kind of a given when there are powerful botnets out there. Your little box gets hammered by a DDoS and then a nice glowing man offers you a service you can't refuse for the right price. I wonder how effective it would be to just range ban China, SEA and Eastern Europe to cut off most of the botnet sources.

The 502s and timeouts I've been getting on large websites seem like a deliberate configuration choice, where a lucky person gets shafted if there are too many requests coming in.

 

[UERISIMILITUDO]

I fucking hate how offering a simple HTTP download is too much to ask for some websites these days. I have to figure out how to install pip, do a venv, and some other Python shit, just to get the latest version of yt-dlp so I can actually download something properly. If I dare try to do it myself, I quickly find the entire thing is typically some JavaScript diarrhea as obfuscated as possible.

On the topic of Cloudflare and other shit, I'm still surprised Josh hasn't been fucked over by TLS certificate authorities yet. This insane idea that websites need to nicely ask for permission to exist every few months is purposefully built for abuse sooner or later.

 

[DavidS877]

On the topic of Cloudflare and other shit, I'm still surprised Josh hasn't been fucked over by TLS certificate authorities yet. This insane idea that websites need to nicely ask for permission to exist every few months is purposefully built for abuse sooner or later.

He was, briefly on one TLD that was not available under a Let's Encrypt style company. Oddly, when he explained they were the only ones issuing for that TLD they said "Ok, fine, for now"

 

[Cave Fisher]

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.

You too? I fucking LOVE that its been recommending me random 200 view videos, it's nice to see some genuine autism and actual small Youtube kino which can be pretty hard to find these days.

 

[Lapsus of the bepsus]

There's a hot new trend in youtube and facebook and similar phonefag apps: ads that pop up when you're trying to scroll past them. It's no longer enough that when you're searching for something in the youtube app literally every other result is an ad. You swipe on the screen to scroll away but if you happen to touch the ad the application intentionally ignores the swipe and instead pretends like you tapped the ad to open it. Truly a wonderful user experience
They also have fake . . . triple dot context menu buttons on the ads, like when you wanna say "don't recommend this gay shit to me" but they do nothing, they once again just open the ad
Phonefags deserve this and worse of course, I think I might have to finally figure out how to root my phone and install an alternative

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

I fucking hate how offering a simple HTTP download is too much to ask for some websites these days. I have to figure out how to install pip, do a venv, and some other Python shit, just to get the latest version of yt-dlp

Why HTTP in particular? Are you trying to avoid Javascript or something?

 

[Fabio Socialist]

Why HTTP in particular? Are you trying to avoid Javascript or something?

I would assume because that's what you expect from a website. I mean, we're not FTP savages or anything.

 

[UERISIMILITUDO]

Why HTTP in particular? Are you trying to avoid Javascript or something?

If I can't use GNU Wget to download it, if I absolutely must use a recent WWW browser or a tool like yt-dlp, it's shit and I want to hurt the programmer responsible.

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

I would assume because that's what you expect from a website.

Well, there is a difference between HTTP and HTTPS. 4chan, for example, stopped using HTTP years ago.

If I can't use GNU Wget to download it, if I absolutely must use a recent WWW browser or a tool like yt-dlp, it's shit and I want to hurt the programmer responsible.

Are you using w3m or netsurf? You're fighting waves at this point.

 

[Don Yagon]

He was, briefly on one TLD that was not available under a Let's Encrypt style company. Oddly, when he explained they were the only ones issuing for that TLD they said "Ok, fine, for now"

That was TLS certificate for onion mirror which is only there because Null was too lazy to fix something in Xenforo that was being hardcoded to HTTPS.

https://news.harica.gr/article/announcement_kiwifarms/

 

[prollyanotherlurker]

Dramatube needs to STOP. Look at what they are doing to this poor woman.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Even "The Library of Babel" site runs on "Cloudflare", and is giving an "origin is unreachable" BS error. FFS.