Modern Web Woes - I'm mad at the internet

Nothing bothers me anymore than an autoplaying video that occupies a third of the screen once you start scrolling down an article. You can hide that shit on desktop with uBlock but good luck having that kind of control with mobile browsers. Click on five different articles, autoplay the same fucking video. I don't know why sites keep insisting with this shit, it's clear no one likes that shit forced on them. All it does is deterring me from visiting your site when I'm using the phone.
Brave mobile or Firefox mobile with uBlock. I use the latter, works like a charm.

If you have an iPhone, it's worth downloading AdGuard and paying $10 for the lifetime license to enable "advanced" blocking that blocks YouTube ads, among a bevy of other useful features. It's worth noting that this is strictly an iOS quirk; AdGuard on Android doesn't require payment for a lifetime license (if I'm not mistaken). On iOS, any other browser is worthless because they're all reskins of mobile Safari. Considering that AdGuard's extension literally has better functionality than Brave mobile does, there's no reason to keep using it anymore.
 
Ah yes the Quora method
You might be able to get around that by going to the old.reddit.com domain but honestly reddit isn't even worth bothering with anymore. The shitposts on there stopped being funny a long ass time ago, there's bugger all decent technical threads for when you're troubleshooting something and it's just extremely gay. About the only thing it's useful for now is laughing at the posters, can't wait to see it put itself in the ground
Reddit is only good for finding answers. Id say chatgpt does that better now as it allows discussion but youre still only getting one source of information.
 
Not exactly web related, but I hate AI grammar. All video shorts or even regular videos on youtube have the same grammar and quirks of speech, it's like dead internet theory on steroids.
It's all watermarked. I already see tons and tons of people use the phrase 'liminal space' (maybe not the best example), something I know for a fact is a quirk of chatgpt idiolect and braindead youtubers. There are probably more subtle idiosyncrasies in ai prose, especially word distribution, but I'm not a linguist so idk. Crazy though that this will likely trickle down the dialects of demographics which tend to use ai such as young or educated people.
 
That doesn't mean AI popularized the phrase "liminal space."
imo it could be that the ai was trained on the most available, contemporary media, and part of that were the swaths of youtube videos harking the phrase, and then someone at chatgpt wrote a prompt or whatever to make it emphasize a certain word distribution. I have no idea how llms work. It's a very white millenial-coded phrase like 'pupper' or 'acab'.
 
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imo it could be that the ai was trained on the most available, contemporary media, and part of that were the swaths of youtube videos harking the phrase, and then someone at chatgpt wrote a prompt or whatever to make it emphasize a certain word distribution. I have no idea how llms work.

It's more likely that it was trained on a bunch of news articles and blog posts containing the phrase.
 
all media, ideas, concepts. all events, all music, every book, every picture, every statue and street will be converted into a youtube slop video essay to maximize midroll ads with a script generated by chatgpt and spoken by some retarded idubbz looking faggot blabbering into a microphone. then finally regurgitated in 30 second short form format.

everything you've ever loved will be diluted into it's most surface level components, mass marketable to a wide audience. ideas exist to be commodified. sponsored by squarespace. to trigger neurons to fire in the basal ganglia to get you to click on an amazon affiliate link.

the molestation and rape of knowledge. on a long enough timeline you will see your own entire life's biography in a SEO listicle made in a new dehli content farm.

this in turn will be aggregated to an LLM dataset. the recursive feedback loop consumed by its own entropy.

every phrase ever uttered will be made into a crypto token.

every App or basic utility ™️ a $9.99 subscription (but you can save more if you buy annually)

antiquated forums replaced with hyperalgorithmic excitotoxic social media streams of retarded bullshit that does not matter.

eventually words will lose all meaning and language itself will evolve directly to a transaction. the human form devolved into a raceless, cultureless, and seamless economic unit.

people don't understand how much they are fucking themselves and what this is doing. there is no going back from this. 90% of today's problems are caused by social media and smartphones. it's that simple.

social media is brainraping humanity. it's a literal parasite to the human mind and poisoning human consciousness as a whole. no form of mass media like television or print has ever come close. people make comparisons about how previous generations always bitch about the next but this is different. you can't walk around with a wiretap skinner-box combo and expect people to be normal.

something has to change
 
something has to change

I doubt it will unless the iPad babies realize how badly they've been neglected once they're adults or how exploitative social media is. The pessimist in me says most of the population will remain niggercattle.

Also, you didn't mention the effects of early porn introduction in the future. Pedophiles and addicts have made it their goal to make porn accepted. The transformation fetish game Changed has popular fan games on Roblox. Someone wore a costume of Puro, the enemy in the game, at a kid's birthday party. People who complained about sex and violence on TV a few decades ago will be rolling in their graves.
 
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Whenever I come across an issue relating to game modding or piracy and I have to look up the solution I always come across this aggravating song and dance:
  • Google tech-related issue.
  • First results are a Reddit thread from someone with my exact problem and SEO pajeet garbage.
  • Click on the Reddit thread.
  • First comment is "stop being lazy and google it".
I did, you faggot, and Google brought me to you, so either say something useful or don't say anything at all.
 
discord trannies demanding that you sub to their $15 a month patreon for the privilege of getting to see and try their shitty amateurish videogame mod after their entourage of cock lickers hypes it up elsewhere is making me feel a certain way. get a real fucking job instead of borderline scamming people and crying when someone leaks your shit and makes it available for free.
member when you could download a million fucking gta san andreas mods that completely change the game, some amazing, some terrible, some hilarious, and pay exactly $0? i remember that very well and these faggots dont. its not even about the money, i could buy your shitty mod a thousand times if i wanted to, its about the erosion of modding culture. if this rot is left to fester then in a decade the same thing that happened to old youtube (absolute retards taking over a fun platform and turning it into a hardcore for-profit corporate slop farm) will happen to pc game modding.
 
Google force-removed UBlock Origin from the Chrome Web Store.
Works for me, then again I have an ancient version of Chrome that I personally lobotomized to not sent telemetry or ever update(as in, it's physically impossible to even attempt such a thing), so maybe I am an exception. Does modern Chrome have an option to remove your current extension if it is blacklisted from the Web Store?
 
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discord trannies demanding that you sub to their $15 a month patreon for the privilege of getting to see and try their shitty amateurish videogame mod after their entourage of cock lickers hypes it up elsewhere is making me feel a certain way. get a real fucking job instead of borderline scamming people and crying when someone leaks your shit and makes it available for free.
member when you could download a million fucking gta san andreas mods that completely change the game, some amazing, some terrible, some hilarious, and pay exactly $0? i remember that very well and these faggots dont. its not even about the money, i could buy your shitty mod a thousand times if i wanted to, its about the erosion of modding culture. if this rot is left to fester then in a decade the same thing that happened to old youtube (absolute retards taking over a fun platform and turning it into a hardcore for-profit corporate slop farm) will happen to pc game modding.
Hopefully when their mod fails to attract people to buy, you can tell em, “that’s Capitalism baby”.
 
The internet used to be the Wild West of media. As long as something wasn’t illegal to host, you could post it. Sure, on sites like Digg and (old)Reddit your post might get downvoted, but it would still persist. Now everything is moderated and sanitized. Only approved speech is allowed, even if that speech is in a private space.

Nearly every online space is a hugbox and I’m so tired of it. Even online games are hugboxes where negative speech results in bans. I’ve played Overwatch since 2018, but will never again give them a cent knowing that my account can be banned if enough players report me. I don’t even have to say anything “bad”. It’s all automated and automatic.
 
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