Modern Web Woes - I'm mad at the internet

[Online Fossil]

They also removed comments from all official audio-only uploads of music, I think around the time they really started trying to make YouTube Music the streaming service a thing. That annoys me more than the kids’ comments being removed, you’d find recommendations, discussion of the meaning or nice stories in the comments for songs and that’s all gone.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

hey @Smaug's Smokey Hole

Another example of what I meant with a "YouTube Kids" label stuck on a video: Skittles Rabbit - YouTube

edit to add: I was kind of dense there - turns out I was never on "YouTube Kids" in the first place. The "YouTube Kids" videos I mentioned were actually just videos that got comments disabled with an ad to try "YouTube Kids" in their place.

They also removed comments from all official audio-only uploads of music

Shouldn't be a surprise if one day, YT gets rid of comments entirely. And visible likes too.

And "related" videos to any video become only the "most popular" videos - as decided by YT staff.

The site definitely isn't what it used to be in the late '00s and early '10s.

 

[Erika Furudo]

Sometimes I even miss the slow loadspeeds of dial-up. I know a certain elderly fellow who blames instant communication for the rise in low attention-spans and dopamine junkie behavior among our current generation, and I've come to respect the fact that he's right on these things

You may want to read The Shallows. It argues that the internet rewires your brain and leaves you struggling to focus on say, reading a book. It's because the internet is attention focused with everything wanting clicks, hyperlinks being a feature that draw your attention and send you looking at various different topics instead of reading things in depth. I had a sense of things being "wrong" before reading, but reading it made things click as I noticed some changes in myself before/after heavy internet use but couldn't put my finger on it. Pretty hard to avoid the internet though, it's all pervasive now.


Firefox is downloading random html files, I have no idea what mozilla did it continues the trend of making everything worse. I haven't opened any weird emails or downloaded anything. suspicious so it's probably not a virus.

 

[BootlegPopeye]

Firefox is downloading random html files, I have no idea what mozilla did it continues the trend of making everything worse. I haven't opened any weird emails or downloaded anything. suspicious so it's probably not a virus.

I also want to know what Firefox is doing on mobile, every link you click now opens a new tab and there is no way to disable this. People who complained were told this was 'expected behavior'; I didn't notice until I had 35 tabs open slowing down my entire phone. I was hoping I could tolerate Firefox just to not be part of the Chromium monopoly of browsers, but I couldn't stand that.

 

[teriyakiburns]

I also want to know what Firefox is doing on mobile, every link you click now opens a new tab and there is no way to disable this. People who complained were told this was 'expected behavior'; I didn't notice until I had 35 tabs open slowing down my entire phone. I was hoping I could tolerate Firefox just to not be part of the Chromium monopoly of browsers, but I couldn't stand that.

I'm not seeing that.

 

[Mister Uno]

I was hoping I could tolerate Firefox just to not be part of the Chromium monopoly of browsers, but I couldn't stand that.

It really is unfortunate that Chromium is so dominate in the browser market anymore. I jumped from Firefox for this exact reason, and it doesn't help Mozilla are filled with SJWs and trannies anymore. Ignoring that, they also love to change shit for the sake of change, which is almost never good. Any other real alternative either goes to shit (Palemoon) or lacks the features of Chrome or Firefox. Seamonkey is the only thing I can think of that comes close.

 

[NetVet]

Watching some old video that makes me laugh and all....noticed that the layout (or in this case, the gayout) of YouTube has changed. I would like to know which gang of trannies and dykes did this and what was their reason, and also, I would like to know how many months did they spend to "redesign" this, how many notes, zoom calls and sloppy iterations did it take to make something look as clunky as this.

The video title font discussion probably took 20 corporate meetings, and they probably discussed how to genocide whites in 19 of them.

Just looks fuckin lame.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Watching some old video that makes me laugh and all....noticed that the layout (or in this case, the gayout) of YouTube has changed. I would like to know which gang of trannies and dykes did this and what was their reason, and also, I would like to know how many months did they spend to "redesign" this, how many notes, zoom calls and sloppy iterations did it take to make something look as clunky as this.

The video title font discussion probably took 20 corporate meetings, and they probably discussed how to genocide whites in 19 of them.

Just looks fuckin lame.

Yes, it changed on my wife two days ago, then on me today, which was a bit weird. It's probably the worst design decision I've seen since windows metro.

 

[Mister Uno]

Watching some old video that makes me laugh and all....noticed that the layout (or in this case, the gayout) of YouTube has changed. I would like to know which gang of trannies and dykes did this and what was their reason, and also, I would like to know how many months did they spend to "redesign" this, how many notes, zoom calls and sloppy iterations did it take to make something look as clunky as this.

The video title font discussion probably took 20 corporate meetings, and they probably discussed how to genocide whites in 19 of them.

Just looks fuckin lame.

It's impressive how they manage to top every redesign as the worst one. I want to say 2009 was YouTube's best in terms of design. I liked it all the way to 2011, but after 2012 it just decline. My only real gripe with the 2009 version is where the channel/description was located was located on the right side. Much prefer the way the 2011 or 2013 version handled it. Dark themes are always a nice welcome to.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Crappy though the internet may be getting, at least there's stuff like Google Earth, universe simulators (like Celestia and SpaceEngine), and other stuff that allows viewing the world and universe in ways that could only be dreamed of in the '90s.

The internet of the '90s was severely technologically limited - it looked like just text, small images, and short small videos.*

*(also it seemed like official sites of stuff were always just online advertisements back then)

 

[BootlegPopeye]

The internet of the '90s was severely technologically limited - it looked like just text, small images, and short small videos.*

Said this before, but another thing about it was how unsecure financial transactions were. eBay sellers in the early days - when it was mostly paid via money orders - were more likely to fuck you over. I didn't get screwed, but my brother did more than once. Transactions on random websites also had alot of scam artists, and I can remember the common advice at the time was that you should never buy things online (funny now in retrospect considering how big this part of the economy has gotten).

I think maybe the internet peaked during the blogging period right before social media became a thing. Alot of creative independent websites with people writing in long form, secure financial transactions, Google not as dominant, etc.

 

[Kosher Dill]

eBay sellers in the early days - when it was mostly paid via money orders - were more likely to fuck you over

Whereas today it's the buyer who's more likely to be running a scam, courtesy of Ebay's "Buyer Always Right" policy.

 

[BootlegPopeye]

Whereas today it's the buyer who's more likely to be running a scam, courtesy of Ebay's "Buyer Always Right" policy.

What people don't remember is that there was a problem before with the old system where sellers would almost always leave retaliatory feedback against buyers who negged them. True, they went over to a worse system, but I think it was due for a change because revenge feedback was spite and nothing more. Maybe if the seller opened a complaint against a buyer for some reason ebay could then allow the seller to neg? But in the late 90s to the mid aughts I probably had 4-5 negs left for me that were nothing but seller retaliation.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

eBay sellers in the early days - when it was mostly paid via money orders - were more likely to fuck you over.

I remember trying to by this CD-ROM of some '90s game in the '00s.

I didn't get what I paid for from a seller before I bought from a seller who actually delivered.

 

[Patty Hitler]

I was thinking about Snopes .com and how back in the early 2000's it was just a site that just disproved urban legends and I wanted to see it as it was then. Then when I put it in to the Wayback Machine, there wasn't anything before 2021. I'm probably missing something obvious, but does anyone know why this is?

 

[seri0us]

I was thinking about Snopes .com and how back in the early 2000's it was just a site that just disproved urban legends and I wanted to see it as it was then. Then when I put it in to the Wayback Machine, there wasn't anything before 2021. I'm probably missing something obvious, but does anyone know why this is? View attachment 3310143

Huh.

 

[Kosher Dill]

I was thinking about Snopes .com and how back in the early 2000's it was just a site that just disproved urban legends and I wanted to see it as it was then. Then when I put it in to the Wayback Machine, there wasn't anything before 2021. I'm probably missing something obvious, but does anyone know why this is? View attachment 3310143

But on the other hand if you ask it what it captured in a given year:



Seems fishy to me.

 

[Maurice Caine]

But on the other hand if you ask it what it captured in a given year:

View attachment 3310223

Seems fishy to me.

You can actually blacklist archive.org from accessing your site by robots.txt settings. Slashdot also does that.

 

[Kosher Dill]

You can actually blacklist archive.org from accessing your site by robots.txt settings. Slashdot also does that.

I didn't know that, but it doesn't seem like they are doing that:

https://www.snopes.com/robots.txt

At least not at the moment.

 

[ditto]

Proton Mail have decided to rebrand and rewrite their web interface for the sixth or seventh time now. It's still slow and takes up waay too much space but now the font is that bold impact that all current year tech companies use. They've also screwed with their plans and somehow pissed of a bunch of subscribers by giving out generous increases to some and cutting back others.
The new color scheme is the same tranny purple that discord uses except more neon.