Modern Web Woes - I'm mad at the internet

[ToroidalBoat]

internet feels so small and lifeless now

Fandom also bought out Curse in 2018.

Like I said before, corporations undoubtedly miss the days before the internet, when they pretty much controlled any non-private, non-local message.

I can see why the "smartphone" and "social media" were invented.

 

[Delta Integrale]

"Fandom" seems to be getting more and more "smartphone-y" and unusable.

- overly dependent on JavaScript to do anything

- overloaded with ads so an ad-blocker is pretty much needed

- clicking on an image in a gallery to open it in another tab just opens another tab with the same article

- images in a gallery have to be viewed in this pop-up window thing

- all images are automatically converted to the hipster WEBP format

- comments aren't there unless one scrolls down to the comments section where they auto-open

- articles are always displayed in a squished-in view unless one clicks this button to stretch them out

- that annoying section at the bottom with links to stuff on popular megacorporation-driven franchises

- they recently went more Current Year censor-y (possibly to appease advertisers)

- did I mention all the advertising?

I've seriously thought about setting up non-shitty mirrors of a few well-maintained wikis on Fandom because of how bad it has gotten.

 

[We Are The Witches]

If you're absolutely in the need of searching videos by oldest on a Youtube channel, it can be done via the API. Through the activities method (it has some weird thing going on where the response I got was not entirely accurate), and the search method (which is proven to be "somewhat" broken, it's not 100% reliable because when I tried it, it clearly ate up some results (videos) that should have been in the output).

Or you can just go to the "Uploads" playlist of a channel (via API (or I think it can even be done by replacing the User-ID's 2nd character "C" to "U", then use as the playlist-ID, making the use of the API unnecessary; I'm not entirely sure about this but works with several channels)), and there they should be sorted, although the maximum capability of such list is of 20000 videos I believe, so if they have more than that, you can't see the oldest.

This is an example of an "Uploads playlist", it's DSP's and it cuts off at around 20000 videos, despite his channel having more.

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- Now those YT shorts suck from what I've seen, it has the same TikTok garbage aura that I just can't enjoy.

- Very old news by now, but that system Twitter has where if you scroll down a bit too little much, it prompts you with a login popup. And I shouldn't need to go to Nitter for looking someone's last 4 Tweets.
Luckily though, I think it can be bypassed by searching for (from:username) and sorting by "latest", they didn't thought of that one, did they? At least it works for me no problem.

- Facebook, just in general. The only real use I've seen people taking advantage of, is for doxing. Good old Facebook Dox central.
They also immensely suck due to a practice they have/had, where they could block your account for "suspicious" use (maybe IP related), and demand a photo ID of you, in order to verify that you're legitimate. Yes, this is something they've actually done/they're doing, which you only expect from a scammer or someone who doesn't care in the slightest about your privacy.

- Youtube also has the same thing with restricted videos by age (I believe that not for the US, but some other countries), where it can ask you for your ID or some form of identification, so that they verify you're of age.
This requirement may be bypassed under certain circumstances, but I currently don't know what that is.

- A specific "meme" I tend to see in streams and comment sections, the "5 head/Big Brain" remark, when actually not in jest and repeated ad nauseam, everything's "big brain" nowadays, even lacing your shoes.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

- Very old news by now, but that system Twitter has where if you scroll down a bit too little much, it prompts you with a login popup. And I shouldn't need to go to Nitter for looking someone's last 4 Tweets.
Luckily though, I think it can be bypassed by searching for (from:username) and sorting by "latest", they didn't thought of that one, did they? At least it works for me no problem.

You can also click "log in" when it pops up and then press the X to close that window. (I discovered this by mistake one day)

 

[Forsaken Wanderer]

Like I said before, corporations undoubtedly miss the days before the internet, when they pretty much controlled any non-private, non-local message.

I can see why the "smartphone" and "social media" were invented.

The sheer amount of Youtube users that watch videos on their phones astounds me, I think there is going to be a large number of zoomers that have eye problems by the time they hit 25, it can't be good looking at a video on a small screen for hours on end.

Also how long is it going to be until Google finds a way to stop videos from playing if it detects an ad blocker.

 

[Rozzy]

I don't know what's happened to Twitter over the last couple of months first I started randomly getting 'Something went wrong. Try reloading.', which has got progressively worse making Twitter virtually unusable, then a login-wall started to appear. It's possible Twitter doesn't like me using TOR Browser?

A workaround has been found by using the Nitter front-end, no errors and no login-wall.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

I don't know what's happened to Twitter over the last couple of months first I started randomly getting 'Something went wrong. Try reloading.', which has got progressively worse making Twitter virtually unusable, then a login-wall started to appear. It's possible Twitter doesn't like me using TOR Browser?

A workaround has been found by using the Nitter front-end, no errors and no login-wall.

The "Something went wrong" is related to javascript blockers and maybe the TOR Browser blocks that from time to time? twimg.com and abs.twimg.com need to be allowed to run.

 

[Rozzy]

The "Something went wrong" is related to javascript blockers and maybe the TOR Browser blocks that from time to time? twimg.com and abs.twimg.com need to be allowed to run.

At first it would happen occasionally, hitting F5 would fix it but then it got progressively worse to happening almost all the time. F5 no longer remedies the situation and the login-wall is a pain, I'm guessing it's an intentional block by Twitter.

I'm using the standard TOR security level 'All Tor Browser and website features are enabled.'

 

[Super Dilator Duel 3D]

- Very old news by now, but that system Twitter has where if you scroll down a bit too little much, it prompts you with a login popup. And I shouldn't need to go to Nitter for looking someone's last 4 Tweets.
Luckily though, I think it can be bypassed by searching for (from:username) and sorting by "latest", they didn't thought of that one, did they? At least it works for me no problem.

You can also click "log in" when it pops up and then press the X to close that window. (I discovered this by mistake one day)

Just download Breakthrough Twitter Login Wall. It's on the Chromium and Mozilla extension stores and will remove the Twitter login popup before you ever have the chance to see it.

Or just don't look at Twitter. That's a much better option.

 

[Maggots on a Train v2]

I want to smash something when a web page apparently fully loads, and the function it's there to do, the action it's supposed to take, just doesn't fucking work. Refresh it, still doesn't work. 20 scripts all on one 5 mb page that doesn't do shit. Brilliant.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I miss when plain HTML was all one needed to know to be a competent web designer.

Then came JavaScript and CSS. Now one pretty much has to be a programmer to be a competent web designer.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

Just download Breakthrough Twitter Login Wall. It's on the Chromium and Mozilla extension stores and will remove the Twitter login popup before you ever have the chance to see it.

Or just don't look at Twitter. That's a much better option.

I don't want more addons to function in the same way I don't want more pills and vaccines to function.

My household cure of clicking log in and then closing the popup works perfectly fine.

 

[khaine]

Because the 2010s were a blur, "social media" seems like a fad that suddenly appeared and caught on. I still remember "Facebook" being huge as recent. Even "Myspace" can still feel somewhat recent. I never had a serious desire to hop on the "social media" bandwagon, just like with the "cellphone culture" and "smartphone culture" crazes - and I see "social media" and such "cultures" as annoying at best. I think that this world would be better off without that crap. The internet of the '00s may have lacked realtime 3D and streaming video in HD, but I think it was better overall. Also KF is like a web 1.0 forum from the '00s, and that's good.

(Also when "YouTube" began to catch on, I thought it was annoying for some reason.)

(Yeah I'm old enough to remember the world before 9/11. I also kind of miss the slow and limited internet of the late 1990s.)

Are you me? I remember when Facebook came to my Uni, and I didn't want to be on it cos you had to use your real name. I miss the web of the late 90s/early 2000s

 

[Dr. Geronimo]

Don't think this is the right place, but the fact that Google did jack for International Men's Day but is pandering to Qatar is hilarious.

 

[Kosher Dill]

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Don't think this is the right place, but the fact that Google did jack for International Men's Day but is pandering to Qatar is hilarious.

Actually, I very much enjoyed the message of "The World Cup is for retards".

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Google did jack for International Men's Day

Seems the modern world really does like to treat men like crap. At least the Western part.

(I did not even know - or I completely forgot - that there is an International Men's Day.)

 

[Ahriman]

A little trip down memory lane... this 88x31 banners were all over the place back then.

A.N. Lucas's 88x31 button Collection

You can also look up images in that size on Google images too:

imagesize:88x31 - Google Search

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

THEY MADE IMDB WORSE! AGAIN!

It is significantly worse now. What was wrong with the old, fast, lightweight system that just listed all the movies an actor/actress had been in?

 

[Flatline]

If you're absolutely in the need of searching videos by oldest on a Youtube channel, it can be done via the API.

Is it possible to find unlisted videos attached to an account through the API?

 

[Epoch]

I hate cloudflare and their 'anti bot' page. Ignoring what they did to the farms, because I have so many privacy extensions to block all sorts of tracking, any site using cloudflare flags me as a bot and sticks me on an infinite loop of their captcha page. This has only started recently. I end up having to open another browser that doesnt have the hardening just to view the page.