Battlefield42
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Have to say that kiwifarms just werks on mobile. Any other site shits itself or changes design/layout all the time (reddit, youtube, xitter).
Modern Web Woes - I'm mad at the internet
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🐕 I am attempting to get the site runnning as fast as possible. If you are experiencing slow page load times, please report it.
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yandex reverse image search is ok
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That's because it's basically the desktop site with tweaked CSS, instead of whatever the fuck mobile websites are these days.
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the mobile version of KF is just providing the website, it probably isnt eating resources trying to harvest data from people's smartphones
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Or eating resources being a massively over-engineered JS-laden piece of shit in general. Your point stands too, though.
grump
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For some reason Youtube thinks I'm interested in a whole bunch of stuff I not only have no interest in but I actively avoid. Usually its 'EXPOSED' or 'DESTROYED' videos 'debunking' various conservative internet commentators I don't even follow. I have a truckload of antiPragerU video recommendations. Seeing an actual PragerU video pop up on the other hand is much rarer. I also get tons of antiElon musk and climate change/anticar recommendations. Currently I'm getting flooded with edgelord atheist vids. Youtube really really really really wants me to see 'Satan's Guide to the Bible' for some reason.
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they realized they cant use the trending tab for social engineering because people just avoid it lol. in all seriousness though if you w ant to solve this issue there are browser exstensions that let you blacklist YT channels, so you arent flooded with garbage you arent interested in.
Stasi
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This may have been mentioned already but I really fucking hate the smug superiority in tech discussion spaces, especially when it comes to discussing budget options.
You will google a question because you want to buy something, follow a forum or reddit (god help you) link and even if the OP is really specific with "I only have $x to spend", or "I can only buy X or Y item" 95% of the responses will be mongoloid retards making the same comment "hurr durrr what are you some kind of brokie? If you aren't re-mortgaging your house to buy the premium 8k QHDRLED option with gold plating and special cable that plugs directly into your anus you might as well not buy anything".
Thanks anon, very useful advice.
You will google a question because you want to buy something, follow a forum or reddit (god help you) link and even if the OP is really specific with "I only have $x to spend", or "I can only buy X or Y item" 95% of the responses will be mongoloid retards making the same comment "hurr durrr what are you some kind of brokie? If you aren't re-mortgaging your house to buy the premium 8k QHDRLED option with gold plating and special cable that plugs directly into your anus you might as well not buy anything".
Thanks anon, very useful advice.
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had this happen to me, i was looking for a docking station for my laptop that added a disk drive because my laptop didnt have one by default, and i just got a bunch of cunts telling me that discs were obsolete in current year while contributing nothing to the conversation
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Not sure if jsbloat or active anti abp measures, but some websites have a shitty performance now. YouTube, Wikia, if I run ad lock they run like shit.
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not sure for wikia but i saw a lois rossman video confirming it for youtube, he shows the line of code that doing it
TheHarbinger
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It's a combination of bad design and aggressive measures against adblocking software. Lots of sites tie their advertisements directly into the rest of the site. This is why things like 'element blockers' or specific filter lists are necessary to eliminate advertisements. If you block the advertisements too aggressively it will brick the entire site.
On YouTube there are filters where you can eliminate 'shorts' from the website completely using browser extensions. But not at the actual source on YouTube where you cannot stop them promoting 'shorts' to you. So what happens is that all 'shorts' and their associated content will load on Google's servers when you access them, then load up on your PC, and then your filter lists activate, recognize the 'shorts', and block them. And this happens every single time you load a YouTube page. If you watch a website that has lots of things that are blocked by your adblocking extensions you will see the unwanted content load up quickly then instantly vanish after your adblocker has attacked every individual element.
This requires processing power, memory, and also requires the website to function around your unintended changes. And is completely inefficient for everyone. But the advertising industry is pretty much unregulated at this point and they control nearly the entire internet now.
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This was probably brought up already, but do you remember when you could leave a youtube video to load, and it would load from start to finish? Super helpful when you had a shitty connection, which lots of us did back in those days. I don't know what techniques the eggheads responsible for this stuff are employing or what it's meant to accomplish, but now when you have a spotty connection you can just forget doing certain things you used to be able to do. Discord is the same with its image compression, if you want to zoom in on something and your connection isn't the best discord will just hang forever.
If all this is supposed to save you bandwidth, why does every single app available constantly phone home even when you're not using it, or download updates without your explicit permission? Shit sucks.
If all this is supposed to save you bandwidth, why does every single app available constantly phone home even when you're not using it, or download updates without your explicit permission? Shit sucks.
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Oh boy, can't wait to send my tab list over to Google because I'm too lazy to sort it!
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how much do we want to bet that it will be on by default for new users?
CashMoney!
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I hate web UIs that are flat with only symbols to navigate around. I was trying to use Uphold and they hide everything behind weird icons with no tooltips. If I don't understand what that icon is, I have to click it to find out through a contextual menu rather than just seeing the title of it under the icon or having a better icon. It's flat and cryptic and weird. I miss these beauties where it was flat and clean but everything was clearly labelled.
I also logged into X yesterday and their frontend is broken as shit. It is barely useable for me because they haven't properly changed twitter domain redirects and other things. Did they gut the original and rebuild it? Good lord.
I also logged into X yesterday and their frontend is broken as shit. It is barely useable for me because they haven't properly changed twitter domain redirects and other things. Did they gut the original and rebuild it? Good lord.
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I came here to post about this myself and back-read a little of the thread to make sure I was on topic and found yours.
It's not just YouTube. It's almost any streaming site. It used to be that websites would serve video as an entire file, like an mp4, and there was a little flexibility in that a GET request could ask for a specific portion of the file (presuming a site was set up to support such GET request types but this was common place) but this wasn't really the modern streaming, where you have a master file and then specific broken up data segments for streaming referenced in that file. The issue is that it presumes you want to minimise bandwidth use for other things. I.e. "oh, I'll only request the specific segments I want as I want them with an absolute minimal amount of buffer so that I'm not blocking other Internet usage." In the scenario where you actually were doing lots of other things and only coming back to the video and pressing play intermittently this would be a good thing. But as you rightly point out when you have a spotty connection and you just want to be able to buffer up the whole thing to watch without it freezing every 30 seconds, it's no good. Your only option is to find some tool or know how yourself to download all the segments programatically and play them locally / stitch them together. Like I believe I could rig up VLC player to play back a stream into a local file and watch from that. But of course that gets fiddly when the stream is controlled by something in the browser, a log in or something else.
I had a look for any way to adjust a setting on whatever playback software is used in the browser but without much luck so far. It used to be that you'd install a specific media plugin and could actually choose which one you wanted. But these days it's all baked into the browser at the surface level. I'll dig some more and see if I can find something with more digging. But if anybody knows, please shout! This would be a really big help to people like me and @cia-log .
Morning Alarm
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@Overly Serious
I want to point out that if you're simply pirating media, you can stream things using sequential downloadson torrents. This works in qbittorent or within most modern torrenting software. In qbittorent, while downloading, you can right click and hit "Download in Sequence", then open it in VLC, and after it downloads to about 1-2% you can start watching it while it is downloading. It will download the segments in order instead of requesting the first available segments first. It's the same as streaming without the faggotry.
Some private sites that require a private session use a server/client log-in as you mentioned. Youtube's media is public-facing and does not require a login to download. As are most streaming services. In VLC you can go to CTRL + N or File > Open Media and go to the network tab and paste in a URL. You may still run into the segmentation problem you mentioned with this method. VLC will usually request the whole file with YouTube. There's a firefox plugin that will put a button over media files on websites that you can click to automatically open it in VLC if you have a shit connection and want to buffer it slowly. This is great for streaming websites with garbage upload bandwidth.
I want to point out that if you're simply pirating media, you can stream things using sequential downloadson torrents. This works in qbittorent or within most modern torrenting software. In qbittorent, while downloading, you can right click and hit "Download in Sequence", then open it in VLC, and after it downloads to about 1-2% you can start watching it while it is downloading. It will download the segments in order instead of requesting the first available segments first. It's the same as streaming without the faggotry.