Modern Web Woes - I'm mad at the internet

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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
Used to do that with YT shorts; clicking the shorts button would softlock the shorts and autoplay the first thing, effectively breaking the entire site.

Ads also have fake Xes btw.

I also LOVE YouTube's "autoplay on hover" feature. I want to play videos 5mins in and register watch time for idling my mouse on the YT page. It also filles my watch history with random shit which then snowball into the most retarded recommendations...
 
To follow on from my previous Wikipedia politics hate:

The other day I was walking home and got "Let's Do It, Let's Fall In Love" stuck in my head. I couldn't remember who sang it so I looked it up, and found this nonsense:

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And what relevance does "Queer Readings of American Theater History" have to do with the song, outside of author Robert A. Schanke - who's other credits are mainly about gays and lesbians in theatre and cinema - grasping for straws to shove THE GAY into everything? Did anyone other than him listen to this song and think "Oh yes this is clearly about the writer being gay." I doubt it.

I had an entire rant lined up about shoving "queer" into the article on Leslie Cheung, a Cantonese actor/singer from the 80s/90s who died in 2003, but it seems since I last looked it up, there isn't a single mention of him being "a queer icon" and it instead just mentions that he was bisexual. Now I'm actually wondering if I didn't edit the article myself when I was drunk.
 
I also LOVE YouTube's "autoplay on hover" feature. I want to play videos 5mins in and register watch time for idling my mouse on the YT page. It also filles my watch history with random shit which then snowball into the most retarded recommendations...
You can turn it off in your YT settings. I hated it too, so I went looking for a way to turn it off.
 
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Motherfucker, I am not even using a single extension.
"allowlisted"

Because "whitelisted" and "blacklisted" are "racist" now?

YT staff have been going nuts trying to BS people into watching ads. From disabling so many vids from playing in embeds to going after other frontends with vid blocking BS.
 
I know it's my fault for still using the hellhole but man Facebook has been obnoxiously shit over the past few months especially. I normally hear people talking about how Twitter or whatever is 'only' ragebait and misinformation and normally just chalk it up to skill issue. Probably just falling for the ragebait and the algorithm noticing. I get the occasional ragebait type slop post force it's way into my feed on Twitter, nothing notable though, fraction of a percent type shit. But since the runup to the American election Facebook has been fucking malicious and so obvious with it's ragebait. I only use the fucker when shitting, only follow a few art pages and cosplayers as well as local spotted/police/news pages and to talk to childhood friends and family. But I swear to god they have perfected their algorithms to scrape whatever 3rd party data and show you the exact type of ragebait that will piss you off the most. The amount of overweight black trannies begging for attention on their 'cosplay' (first and cheapest XXL result from Amazon) photos or posting the typical 'can't be racist towards white people we was kangz' type retardation is insane, surely the jewish lizard must be cooking these people up in a factory or some shit. I remember literally less than 6 months ago when it was still slop but it was cute dog slop, one account would get spammed in my feed would just freeboot uncredited videos of pyreneses, giant fluffball pet polar bears, I'll take redditor tier /r/dogporn top of all time posts over malicious ragebait. Like I know Facebook literally has a history of being exposed for intentionally showing ragebait to keep engagement but it doesn't even work on me. I see some dumb shit and I just close the app and go back to shitting, how the fuck you manage to make an app worse than the cunt that is ibs should be actually not studied now I think about it, I mean reddit and tumblr are also worse but still. I just miss when algorithms were there to find shit you would enjoy rather than the opposite. I don't want my social media to have the same fucking engagement model of lol or cs2 ffs. Imagine making your social media site so shit that I'm sat here genuinely missing fucking Facebook of all platforms.
 
I take it that "ragebait" is something where the "algorithm" tries to get you to interact with the FB site more -- and "socially engineer" you -- by exposing you to SJW BS?
Ragebait is anything designed to provoke anger to generate engagement, as angry viewers are more likely to comment and share. It exists on both sides of the political spectrum.
 
I take it that "ragebait" is something where the "algorithm" tries to get you to interact with the FB site more -- and "socially engineer" you -- by exposing you to SJW BS?

(Never signed up for "social media" BTW.)
Imagine someone following you around and learning every single thing about you, to the point where they know more about you than you do, the things you've forgotten about they've remembered. They know everything about your life and all of your beliefs, everything the schizophrenics warned you about for years they're actually doing that shit now. Then they take all of those things they've learnt about you and figure out the exact opposite type of person to you. Then they replace all of the content you want to see with shit from these troglodytes. All the cute fluffy dogs they used to put in your feed are gone. They know you drive a car and are proud of it and keep it in a good state so now your feed is full of 'SUVs are murder' 'driving a car is a sign of fascist white supremacy' 'we slashed your tires because we dont like cars' 'if you drive a car you should be murdered subscribe to /r/fuckcars'. Enjoy cooking? Here's a thousand vegans screaming at you that because you enjoy protein derived from something other than soy or bugs that you're encouraging the rape of children and you support middle eastern genocide. Moderate conservative like half the country? Here's thousands of hedonisitc consoooomers talking about how children actually can consent. This site has a reputation for harassment right? Constantly cowtipping and shit like that? Despite doing so would get you mocked harder than the cows themselves. But the way that people talk about what 'we' 'did' to Chrischan, constantly spamming him with shit to piss him off or whatever. The people on bluesky constantly paranoid and seeing kf trolling in random places. That sort of shit where people think that this site exists solely to piss people off and fuck with them despite most people here just watching arms firmly within the ride. That antikf paranoia over nothing is how the Facebook algorithm actually works.
 
Here's something that's been pissing me off more than usual lately. Websites that load 90% of the way, pause, then load in the last few elements. But because everything is Responsive™️, those last elements rearrange the entire page. And they do it, almost without fail, just as I'm clicking on something.

I know it's not a new gripe, but it seems to be getting worse lately. Probably because everything is made with piece of shit Electron and every "app" is actually just a website but slowed down to nigh unusability because Pajeet has a hard time coding in something that isn't JavaScript.

I wonder if it would be possible to create some sort of standard where the first thing that loads is the position and size of every element, so that as pages load they just pop in where they belong instead of this devil's Lego bullshit.
 
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