Modern Web Woes - I'm mad at the internet

[ToroidalBoat]

There seems to be an increase of sites where there's a JS-based popup (so not an actual new window) that says "by using this site you agree to the use of cookies and that you accept the Terms of Use" (and site TOS almost invariably try to block "Fair Use")...

It lets me know that I'm watching a PBS clip.

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Is PBS considered "wrongthink" now?

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

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Is PBS considered "wrongthink" now?

Don't think so, it was just funny that youtube had to point out that PBS is an american public service channel.

edit: searched YT for tucker carlson and clicked on a video on Fox News' channel and I did not get a blue box.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

There seems to be a lack of April 1st jokes today, unlike before.

All I could find is the "Did You Know" list on Wikipedia.

• ... that after one of Piet Mondrian's paintings (shown) was discovered to have been hanging upside down for decades, the museum left it as is?
• ... that Charles III abdicated to become a monk, leaving his land divided between his younger brothers?
• ... that an artist tried to fly on a Hummingbird?
• ... that the Loophonium, a cross between a euphonium and a toilet, was played alongside the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic on April Fools' Day?
• ... that Edith of Wilton was criticized for not working after her death?
• ... that Twelves, a pet monkey, died and became a diamond?
• ... that "'average person eats 3 spiders a year' factoid actualy just statistical error"?
• ... that a rabbit played for the Philadelphia Eagles – as there's a drive into deep left field by Castellanos, that will be a home run. And so that will make it a 4–0 ballgame?

(also the featured article today is "The Boring Lava Field")

 

[Yaks]

Is PBS considered "wrongthink" now?

They add the warning for any channel that receives government funding. Al Jazeera News has it too despite being liberal.

 

[Pig Boss]

There seems to be a lack of April 1st jokes today, unlike before.

Probably because humourless web2.0 faggots do nothing but whine about April Fools Day pranks.
It's always the same, they inevitably fall for the obvious prank and then get mad about it when it's revealed as such because they're incapable of laughing at themselves.
This dumb cunt is a great example of what I was talking about. Or this one. There's millions of them.
I remember waaaay back in the 00's a website I frequented said they were getting rid of users ability to type the the letter E in comments because it's the most frequently used letter in the English language and by removing it they would save bandwidth, you could however pay a premium to retain your E privileges. People. Were. Pissed. Furious, even. Over the most obvious joke on the internet.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Probably because humourless web2.0 faggots do nothing but whine about April Fools Day pranks.

IIRC someone in the KF chat once said that they've never heard SJWs and pro-copyright fanatics (and maybe some other kinds of "no fun allowed" types) ever genuinely laugh.

 

[Yaks]

IIRC someone in the KF chat once said that they've never heard SJWs and pro-copyright fanatics (and maybe some other kinds of "no fun allowed" types) ever genuinely laugh.

You hear them laugh now, but it's over jokes with words in it like "heckin" and deep fried pictures of spongebob. I have a negative reaction to the word heckin' now just on how pervasive it is on social media. Just swear.

 

[Anonitolia]

There seems to be a lack of April 1st jokes today, unlike before.

no humor is allowed in the wonderful internet paradise of today

 

[Linako 2.0]

websites not doing april fools jokes anymore

 

[teriyakiburns]

imagine thinking transpeople are a joke bigot

ur a joke bigot

 

[PipTheAlchemist]

Probably because humourless web2.0 faggots do nothing but whine about April Fools Day pranks.

April Fools Day pranks are offensive and western-centric, don't you know?

 

[ToroidalBoat]

no humor is allowed in the wonderful internet paradise of today

I miss when the internet wasn't so communist.

Fandom/f.Wikia is worse off than I remembered

Fandom is now overly prudish*, overly dependent on JavaScript to show, has too many ads, auto-converts all images to WEBP, and needs the latest browsers to run correctly.

*(at least with non-woke stuff)

 

[RSLUG30]

websites not doing april fools jokes anymore

I don't think even reddit did an april fools this year; if they did then it was so lackluster that it fizzled out quietly with no press or public awareness.
Google used to be one of the big guys who still did april fools, but they cancelled that tradition in 2020 because they wanted "employees to contribute to relief efforts instead.". Not sure how you can divert prank energy into stopping an already out of control disease, but what do I know?

According to an internal email obtained by Business Insider, Google will “take the year off from that tradition out of respect for all those fighting the Covid-19 pandemic. Our highest goal right now is to be helpful to people, so let’s save the jokes for next April, which will undoubtedly be a whole lot brighter than this one.”

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[Anonitolia]

which will undoubtedly be a whole lot brighter than this one

oh how little they knew

 

[teriyakiburns]

I'm not sure if it counts a modern, but I'm going to complain anyway. Project Gutenberg. For whatever reason, they don't allow you to browse an index beyond 1000 results, which means that there are potentially thousands of stories that I can't access. Normally it wouldn't be too much of a problem, but I've been trying to find one particular scifi short story that just isn't accessible any more, no matter how I sort the indexes. I don't remember enough details to find it with a search, either.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

There seems to be a lack of April 1st jokes today, unlike before.

websites not doing april fools jokes anymore

Here's some

• The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog on Steam. Actual free game.
• April’s Overwatch 2 patch is too much fun to be a joke.
• Funniest Ubisoft Games to Play for April Fools’.
• Basic Math: Seven Ate Nine announced by Atari.
• ROG ALLY - ROG’s First Gaming Handheld Console (video).
• Among Us - Crewmates are now Horsemates in both Classic and Hide n Seek Game Modes.
• Windpass Password Manager. Thanks Ant. Here's a video.
• Put on your best game face with the Razer Razer—the world’s first shaving mouse powered by Razer.
• Mobile Infantry - War Thunder. Adding mechs.
• Goat Simulator 3 and Catan are swapping their signature livestock.
• Firearms Expert Reacts To CURSED Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades’ Guns.
• Tom Cruise abandons Starfield cameo after Bethesda bans space stunts.
• 3DFX re-enters the GPU market, shows off an RTX4090-killer with 30GB of VRAM at $1000.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2362740/POOSTALL_Royale/

 

[Inafune Fanfiction]

Like Truman said, If you want a friend on the internet, get a NeoPet.

kill yourself glownigger scum

 

[ToroidalBoat]

If you search on at least Google for something on KF without using "site:kiwifarms.net"*, you may not get results from Kiwi Farms, but instead "related" articles from MSM news sources about how this place is a "hate site" or the like.

*(for example "when did Current Year begin Kiwi Farms")

 

[306h4Ge5eJUJ]

If you search on at least Google for something on KF without using "site:kiwifarms.net"*, you may not get results from Kiwi Farms, but instead "related" articles from MSM news sources about how this place is a "hate site" or the like.

*(for example "when did Current Year begin Kiwi Farms")

At this point search engines are so unusably shit that I wouldn't even be surprised if this was accidental.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

At this point search engines are so unusably shit that I wouldn't even be surprised if this was accidental.

I tried it on Yandex and got KF in the top results though.

(while on Google and Brave it didn't show)