Modern Web Woes - I'm mad at the internet

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sweater_supremacy said:
Normally I understand they are doing things to get more ad revenue out of people but I don't understand this
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306h4Ge5eJUJ said:
When in doubt, the reason is that they've crammed in more unreliable AI shit.
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Maybe it goes like: you enter a color code that is green, the algorithm detects "green" and discards that code, then returns a usual color associated with "green" somehow?
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
Does that stupid "sign in with Google" or "sign in with email" crap on websites ever work? More and more sites are requiring that BS.
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Easily one of my top pet peeves with the modern web, every other site I visit has the same popup prompt to sign in with my Google account and it'll never remember that I instantly closed that prompt, so the next time the page refreshes or changes it'll just appear again.
And when they try to lock content behind having an account, I'm just going to make one with a 10 minute email, not my google account where they'd have access to god knows how much data.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
Does that stupid "sign in with Google" or "sign in with email" crap on websites ever work? More and more sites are requiring that BS.
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in my experience its jsut a convenience thing, you can you it to bypass needing to make an account, itll just fill in the blanks for you unless it asks for something atypical, not that associating a bunch of stuff with one email account is good for anything except centralizing where spam goes
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
Does that stupid "sign in with Google" or "sign in with email" crap on websites ever work? More and more sites are requiring that BS.
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Google gives higher ad rates or other incentives to sites that let them use Google IDs to sign into their sites directly. And of course the data mining being the primary factor. Things like uBlock have filters to excise this crap from your browser. But even then it can cause issues where the window not being clicked out of will invisibly hover over the site or break some other script. Or the site will just show a blank screen.

Also once you log into a site with your Google ID you can never make Google 'forget' that you did it even by accident. And logging out of that site without logging entirely out of your Google account is prohibitively difficult for the average user. They used to make it nearly impossible to unlink your Google account from a website if you logged in even one time by accident.
 
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Something else I miss of the internet before Current Year is people were more willing to make art online for free back then. Now it seems it's more "subscribe to Patreon". In the modern world of Current Year where it seems everything except breathing and sunshine can cost money, and everything is getting overpriced, that is not a good thing.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
(like #32a852 when you entered #7fff00)
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Even worse now: it just picks random colors.

sweater_supremacy said:
even patreon is pozzed at this point
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Also deviantART copied Patreon: artists can make it so one has to pay to access some stuff. And dA is celebrating "pride month" with that "progress flag"* in the dA logo.

* (the one that lumps "people of color" together with "transgenders" and LGBTQETC+++)
 
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I hate how unnavigable the web is without adblock.

Getting 90% of your page is ads is one thing, but now there's ads that pretend to be the download button, full window buttons that take you to popups, god knows how many tracking and injection cookies and "Virus alert" notifications.

Google's first 3 or so 'sponsored' suggestions are just malware all the time. The internet has regressed to being all those shady ad websites from the 90s who's only purpose was to annoy you with ads.
 
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Kaspersky is officially banned in the US.

I'm a fan of they schizo theory he drops in at the end. It does kind of make sense that the federal government wouldn't want US citizens to have software from the one source that can detect Pegasus. Or, potentially similar spyware in the future.

Them banning federal employees from having kaspersky made a little sense. but not allowing any US citizen to use it. That to me is absurd. What legitimate national security concern would their be from just a regular Joe Shmoe having it on their computer? Even if it did turn out that the Russian government was compelling them to give their data to them.

It seems like this trend is going to keep growing. More and more software and companies will likely keep getting banned. At least to me, its a bit concerning.
 
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Google has become substantially worse in just the past few weeks. I tried to search for a specific malfunction of an appliance, their shitty AI forced results for an entirely different type of appliance. I gave up and tried to look for info on local repair places, even that was completely cocked up. I didn't even get a half dozen real results before they were throwing in random shit like pride month news articles.
 
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Maggots on a Train v2 said:
Google has become substantially worse in just the past few weeks. I tried to search for a specific malfunction of an appliance, their shitty AI forced results for an entirely different type of appliance. I gave up and tried to look for info on local repair places, even that was completely cocked up. I didn't even get a half dozen real results before they were throwing in random shit like pride month news articles.
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It was showing you pride stuff, because they can tell from all their data collection you're gay. Obviously.
 
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