Modern Web Woes - I'm mad at the internet

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Here's my woe of the moment: the Widevine DRM plugin that comes built-in in Firefox crashes your system entirely if you have Windows 10's memory integrity enabled:
This has been known for at least 4 years and never fixed. It's easy enough to just turn the plugin off, but it's inexcusable for a browser to be able to BSOD your entire machine.
I'm guessing this happens because Widevine attempts to hijack some sort of system memory and can't.
 
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Here's a thing that I've noticed but could never really put the finger on until now. This will probably be familiar to 'burgermericans but it wasn't always like this.

When I search for a dish, food item or recipe AS AN IMAGE SEARCH outside of my culture/language I increasingly et suggestions/pictures from what is made and sold locally by the big companies. It even seems to translate my query, in almost any language, so it can re-direct the results to the recipe sites of the big local super markets or dairy/poultry/meat producers. For convenience sake, I'm sure, I can only read one language after all.

As an example, "Chorizo" is pretty safe right now, I'd say 70% of my image results are what you could consider chorizo while the rest is a pack of thick hotdogs that can be bought at any store around here. Five years from now I will probably have to VPN-hop to google an accurate picture of that fucking sausage, VPN-hop just so I can find myself in the ad-search bin of another country with a chain that at least sells something closer to the actual thing. Lunacy.
 
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So I have been attempting to set up various pieces of web software on my servers. One of them was one of these twitter-alternative "fediverse" pieces of software called pleroma.

I've gotten the instance set up, but I have no idea how to actually *use* this thing to talk to another node/server, which I thought was the whole point of the medium. I can't "remote-follow" anyone. Can anyone that uses these fediverse instances give pointers?

Nevermind. I figured it out. Have to browse to the page from within the home instance's web-search.
 
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Nevermind. I figured it out. Have to browse to the page from within the home instance's web-search.
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My modern web woe is the general lack of internet knowledge the average user has today. This ranges from how to use a search engine correctly and netiquette on forums/social media to OpSec and the general rules of how the internet works. Of course many people still have this knowledge, but the newer generations are actively being herded away from the Internet in favor of walled gardens. we are quickly approaching a point where simply possessing this knowledge shows your power level.
 
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Fucking google piece of shit. I will search under videos with the "intitle" operator and it will pull up nothing. If I use the same search parameters but put in the "site" operator say for youtube it comes up with all kinds of shit. Same shit with images. How does this make any sense?
 
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Fucking google piece of shit. I will search under videos with the "intitle" operator and it will pull up nothing. If I use the same search parameters but put in the "site" operator say for youtube it comes up with all kinds of shit. Same shit with images. How does this make any sense?
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Does it do the same thing for "allintitle: [search terms]"? does it work if you apply both "site" and "intitle" in a search? I haven't generally used intitle because I've found it somewhat unreliable. Sometimes it works great, but mostly broken and useless.
 
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Does it do the same thing for "allintitle: [search terms]"? does it work if you apply both "site" and "intitle" in a search? I haven't generally used intitle because I've found it somewhat unreliable. Sometimes it works great, but mostly broken and useless.
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If I have both "site" and "intitle" operators it gives me results, but if I take out the "site" operator and leave the "intitle" parameters the same it says there are no results. It used to work good enough a year ago, but the past few months it just seems to suck progressively more. I've never used "allintitle", so I can't compare the difference. I am using quotations to search for an exact phrase with "intitle" however, and I've also noticed in this time frame searching exact phrases has gone to complete and utter shit and highlighting results with words similar to but not exactly what I had typed. This is not an actual example, but if I searched for "broiled chicken" it might return "baked chicken". It's just really bad now.
 
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My modern web woe is the general lack of internet knowledge the average user has today. This ranges from how to use a search engine correctly and netiquette on forums/social media to OpSec and the general rules of how the internet works. Of course many people still have this knowledge, but the newer generations are actively being herded away from the Internet in favor of walled gardens. we are quickly approaching a point where simply possessing this knowledge shows your power level.
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The worst part about the walled gardens being phased into the internet is that their purpose was never for discussion like forums are. They are only there as a psychological weapon and another measure to control public discourse while actively killing any alternatives by infiltrating moderation positions there too.

Anyone who Larps about "defending free speech" needs to be bitchslapped into 2084. They're always the same ones who appoint these kinds of assholes into moderation positions in the first place and any valid complaints fall on deaf ears. Meanwhile any actually decent jannies are ousted at the first opportunity over the course of their virtual coups.
 
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My modern web woe is that the entirety of the modern internet is not about discussion but controlling narratives to an extreme degree.

Everywhere easily accessible online these days is just a spergbanning hugbox that will arbitrarily throw a permaban your way at any moment. Even if you've been there for years with zero issues. Meanwhile their bots and sock accounts are allowed to get away with everything and use Terms of Service as a jumprope. KF documents plenty of that gayop fuckery in most of their lolcow threads involving users of major platforms like discord, which is often a mark of death whenever a website advertises one.
 
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My modern web woe is that the entirety of the modern internet is not about discussion but controlling narratives to an extreme degree.

Everywhere easily accessible online these days is just a spergbanning hugbox that will arbitrarily throw a permaban your way at any moment. Even if you've been there for years with zero issues. Meanwhile their bots and sock accounts are allowed to get away with everything and use Terms of Service as a jumprope. KF documents plenty of that gayop fuckery in most of their lolcow threads involving users of major platforms like discord, which is often a mark of death whenever a website advertises one.
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Kiwifarms included. Admins here are eager to hole-ban you for a posting a meager opinion they disagree on. It's now engrained into people and zoomers have gotten used to it; they never even knew what proper admins should do or behave. Sad.

Also Youtube removed the little "watch later" button and pressing the shorts button breaks the entire site and it needs a reload. The latest update fucked up everything; playlists no longer work like they're intended either. *sigh*
 
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Gender: Xenomorph said:
Kiwifarms included. Admins here are eager to hole-ban you for a posting a meager opinion they disagree on. It's now engrained into people and zoomers have gotten used to it; they never even knew what proper admins should do or behave. Sad.

Also Youtube removed the little "watch later" button and pressing the shorts button breaks the entire site and it needs a reload. The latest update fucked up everything; playlists no longer work like they're intended either. *sigh*
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Site moderation was meant to filter out glowie spammers and other bad actors who are just there to break the law or troll. Nothing more. Nothing less. The problem has always been cliques that go out of their way to ruin the fun for everyone just cause they can. Then turn around screaming about how "the internet is dying" like that retard's "sidewalk is ending" page.
 
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Inafune Fanfiction said:
My modern web woe is that the entirety of the modern internet is not about discussion but controlling narratives to an extreme degree.

Everywhere easily accessible online these days is just a spergbanning hugbox that will arbitrarily throw a permaban your way at any moment. Even if you've been there for years with zero issues. Meanwhile their bots and sock accounts are allowed to get away with everything and use Terms of Service as a jumprope. KF documents plenty of that gayop fuckery in most of their lolcow threads involving users of major platforms like discord, which is often a mark of death whenever a website advertises one.
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sounds just like kiwifarms sock accounts are allowed to pay off admins and stay yet others are banned without reason
 
I'm just tired of every search engine these days. Also has anyone noticed that you can search for a basic word and the first result isn't for that word but for some company or brand? For example, I googled Condor and the first thing that comes up is the airline, not the actual bird. I know it isn't that big of a deal but I find it annoying and they do it with so many things. Apologies if someone pointed it out already, I figured it was worth mentioning.
 
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SilverRoseChariot said:
I'm just tired of every search engine these days. Also has anyone noticed that you can search for a basic word and the first result isn't for that word but for some company or brand? For example, I googled Condor and the first thing that comes up is the airline, not the actual bird. I know it isn't that big of a deal but I find it annoying and they do it with so many things. Apologies if someone pointed it out already, I figured it was worth mentioning.
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This, but from the opposite perspective. I'll type in "blackberry" as in "Blackberry Phone" and then when I get the fruit I feel disappointed in myself for not thinking very hard.
 
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