Modern Web Woes - I'm mad at the internet

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IF I HAVE TO SEE THIS FAGGOT TRANNIME THING AGAIN AM GONNA SHIT ON GEORGE FLOID's NIGGER GRAVE
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Combustion Engine said:
You can bypass it easily, try this (script, also AMO extension but haven't tested it, maybe check the xpi first). It affects the average person's browser more than it does crawlers.
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I made a simple uBlock filter:
Code: 
##img[src*="/anubis/static/img/"]
Just paste it in uBlock's "My filters" and you're saved from the pedophile imagery..
 
Even with custom filter in uBlock, I'm starting to see the AI-generated "answers" on Google slipping through again. Those still always read like a "robot phone voice" to me.

Combustion Engine said:
go back to Chrome
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I never hopped on that "Google Chrome" bandwagon. Such a sucky browser. Not adblock-friendly. And can't disable caching, which is really bad for flash memory like in an SSD.

Nanachi said:
At this point Firefox only exists to serve as controlled opposition as Google pools their funding into Mozilla.
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Without changing many settings via about:config, FF caches stuff, downloads endless ~20 MB updates from Google for "safe browsing", and also spies on you with "telemetry" BS.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
An annoying new trend that I think started with Reddit, but now that BS is at least also on Imgur: trying to view an image alone just takes one to a webpage with that image.
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This is webshit pajeets getting needlessly clever with the HTTP Accept header. If you have an extension like HTTP Header Mangler, you can add a rule for these sites like
Code: 
i\.redd\.it
Accept=image/*
to tell them that you'll only accept raw images.
 
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Fraygorryt The Wise said:
It's truly just trannyware in every way.
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Why don't people use Kiwiflare?
HalHalliday said:
If I have to solve another captcha today, I'm becoming a terrorist.

Also, why the fuck do captchas now have 10 steps? Wouldn't it be easier to change it at that point? Fucking pajeets.
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CaptchaBuster can solve Google captchas for you but it isn't much help on others.
 
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Markass the Worst said:
CaptchaBuster can solve Google captchas for you but it isn't much help on others.
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Thank you for this, will try it.
ToroidalBoat said:
"Back in my day", you didn't need endless "extensions", and plain HTML internet worked good enough.
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It's not just the Internet. Office suite and variants are a great example that nothing got better in the last 30-40 years. People do the same things with faster computers and worse functionality. If something makes me go full on Luddite it will be the supposed advancement of technology.
 
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HalHalliday said:
Thank you for this, will try it.

It's not just the Internet. Office suite and variants are a great example that nothing got better in the last 30-40 years. People do the same things with faster computers and worse functionality. If something makes me go full on Luddite it will be the supposed advancement of technology.
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The common thread around the cause for these software enshittifcations is backwards compatibility and network effect. When adding new features the software strides further from its initial design, which creates a mess.
It's not that hard to create a better alternative to modern web or office suites, it's that if you want to create something better it can't be backwards compatible with the shit version. The problem is everyone having to move over at the same time or else there is unbearable friction.
It certainly can happen, but it needs to be done by a large entity that can force everyone to move over. Like a Microsoft or government.
In both the case of becoming a Luddite as well as forcing a redesign, the old shitty version has to be trashed.
I'm slightly optimistic that as technology in the long term converges toward improvement and perfection, new protocols/software will emerge that replace the crap we have today.
 
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HalHalliday said:
It's not just the Internet. Office suite and variants are a great example that nothing got better in the last 30-40 years.
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OSes too. Back in the day, it was BASIC and DOS. The former was hardwired into the computer and didn't really need backing up (nor could be backed up), and that latter still had relatively few files and still did not need endless "updates" or "system logs" or "patches", and was easily replaceable -- and also used minimal system resources to run.

Anyway, how are office suites getting worse? Last time I used Word was in the '00s (I think?), and I have just been using WordPad or the equivalents if I want to type a text with different fonts and the like. Otherwise I just use plain text if I wanna type something. I may use LibreOffice or whatever it's called now, but have not used Micro$oft.

If something makes me go full on Luddite it will be the supposed advancement of technology.
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Various SF works from the 20th century assumed that techs would develop -- but usually assumed that the psychology with technology would remain more or less like in the 20th century. People in the 20th century did not count on "social media" and "smartphones" and "social justice" changing that psychology with using technology for the crappier...
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
Various SF works from the 20th century assumed that techs would develop -- but usually assumed that the psychology with technology would remain more or less like in the 20th century. People in the 20th century did not count on "social media" and "smartphones" and "social justice" changing that psychology with using technology for the crappier...
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Oh really?
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Fahrenheit 451 (or '233 Celsius' as it was published in the UK) got some aspects of new technology pretty bang on in their effect on human society.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
I didn't say all works, but yep there was 20th century fiction that anticipated people going crazy (or crazier).

Meanwhile in other fiction like Star Trek people act like it's 1960s or 1980s (TOS or TNG) with more technology.
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Oh I know, I was being a little unfair. You did leave wiggle room. I was very surprised when I finally read it to see how it described the way his wife was into her "screens" and the babble and interaction of them. I'd just figured from the title and vague synopsis that it was mainly about an oppressive government burning books they didn't like.

Anyway, my contribution to the thread for the day?

#1 The way things move around on the screen just as I'm clicking them. Specifically a page loads, I see the thing I want and click on it and just as I do some other element completes loading and I'm clicking on something entirely different. AJAX was a mistake.

#2 The way more and more sites are deliberately detecting and blocking VPNs for no good reason. I believe they're trying to move things to the point where even if VPNs aren't illegal, they're impractical.

#3 The way more and more sites are very suddenly blocking their content unless you allow Third Party tracking cookies.
 
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Overly Serious said:
The way more and more sites are deliberately detecting and blocking VPNs for no good reason
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I think the reason is that it's too hard to tell the difference between a real user routed through a VPN instance on a French server farm and the trillions of spambots also running on that French server farm.

Total OVH Death.
 
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