Modern Web Woes - I'm mad at the internet

[Mr. 0]

images I download

they do not like this and are building to get you to pay a nominal fee to view their dirty pictures

 

[Zeftax]

I’d love to know why images on the modern web are being converted from JPEG to WebP. Over half the images I download are WebP and I have to convert them back to JPEG or PNG to even be able to functionally view/use them. Such a goddamn pain in the ass.

Apparently it is compresses to a smaller size than JPEG (when lossy) or PNG (when lossless). The difference is supposed to be around 25% - which is a lot for companies like google that have a shitton of images on their servers.
That info does come from google (who made the format) though, so idk how much you can trust it: https://developers.google.com/speed/webp.

 

[HalHalliday]

I’d love to know why images on the modern web are being converted from JPEG to WebP. Over half the images I download are WebP and I have to convert them back to JPEG or PNG to even be able to functionally view/use them. Such a goddamn pain in the ass.

Apparently it is compresses to a smaller size than JPEG (when lossy) or PNG (when lossless).

Google’s whole C-suite should be hanged for dropping support for the superior JPEG XL (.jxl) in Chrome in favor of their proprietary WebP (.webp) - all while parading around with their so-called green initiatives, yet killing off the one format that could’ve slashed global bandwidth, storage, and energy use, and done it with better quality. Sustainability scam my ass.

 

[Vonel]

Sustainability scam my ass

This can quite literally be applied to every single "sustainable" initiative out there. LED bulbs, 'smart' devices, electric cars, etc. It's all a lie when you take a look at the larger picture rather than the cherry picked datapoints companies use to make you consoom their new product.
Green Enegry/Sustainability is going to be remembered as the biggest con in human history. Just another example of too big to fail companies colluding with the government to FUCK you and I over.

Sidenote: Most people don't know that reduce and reuse comes before recycle.

 

[Fig Kommandant]

Google’s whole C-suite should be hanged for dropping support for the superior JPEG XL (.jxl)

I really do miss the FLIF image format, imagine animated GIFs, accurate PNGs and lossy JPGs all in one format. They did use the FLIF tech for JXL but JXL doesn't support animation.

 

[GeorgeFloydFentanylStash]

Green Enegry/Sustainability is going to be remembered as the biggest con in human history. Just another example of too big to fail companies colluding with the government to FUCK you and I over.

Sidenote: Most people don't know that reduce and reuse comes before recycle.

Too bad nobody will face accountability for it either. Just like all the government fraud and waste that has been going on for decades.

 

[306h4Ge5eJUJ]

I’d love to know why images on the modern web are being converted from JPEG to WebP. Over half the images I download are WebP and I have to convert them back to JPEG or PNG to even be able to functionally view/use them. Such a goddamn pain in the ass.

Google ranks sites higher for using WebP. That WebP is a Google format is a coincidence, move along.

 

[crowabunga]

Sidenote: Most people don't know that reduce and reuse comes before recycle.

Tell me about it. Recycling is the consumer's palliative.

I just learned about the McMaster-Carr website. I've never liked modern web design, but the sheer efficiency of McMaster.com makes it worse: now I know how bandwidth- and CPU-light modern websites could be. Going on a tangent from your point, Vonel, I often see thinkpieces by cocksucking ragebaiter "journalists" about how "x little thing you enjoy is bad for the environment" but I never see thinkpieces about how the little things we don't enjoy and don't choose for ourselves are bad for the environment. Has anyone run the math on how much global storage, bandwidth, and electricity would be saved if corporate webdevs were required to produce efficient websites?

 

[Zeftax]

I just learned about the McMaster-Carr website.

I am convinced this shit is astroturfed as fuck. I see it pushed everywhere, even though the site still requires javascript to do anything.

 

[crowabunga]

I am convinced this shit is astroturfed as fuck. I see it pushed everywhere, even though the site still requires javascript to do anything.
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God, if it's astroturfed and there's even better sites out there that makes the comparison worse! Even a less-than-perfect site mogs the entire mainstream web, so imagine how much better a hypothetical ideal website would be!

 

[Jace on ice]

I don't want to click through four fucking drop down menus in order to search for something or login. Stop designing UI that we all decided was dogshit back in 2005.

 

[Lambda Corps]

I miss when people were allowed to civilly disagree with each other without some kill team of trannyjannies swooping in to kill any discussion.

Now its all about controlling narratives to an insane degree to where online discourse is all but dead and all they care about is e-begging and giving nothing but lipservice about community. Really puts into perspective just how out of control astroturfing and marketing firms are today.

 

[TheHarbinger]

Google ranks sites higher for using WebP. That WebP is a Google format is a coincidence, move along.

They also reward you with higher search results if your site uses infinite scroll instead of pages. And will basically threaten to de-list your site if you don't have a mobile version. Meaning your site gets buried at the bottom even on a desktop search if you don't have mobile support.

 

[cactus]

Please President Trump bring an anti-trust lawsuit against Google.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

they do not like this and are building to get you to pay a nominal fee to view their dirty pictures

Modern Internet really doesn't want you downloading anything. YouTube has to constantly screw over yt-dlg, images are often manipulated with that you can no longer right click/save as or drag off onto your desktop, and some websites even try to discourage you from copying and pasting plain text.

A good number of these can be defeated with script blockers and a bit of technical know-how but it's ridiculous that they have to go through those lengths.

For modern web woes, it's the fact that few places (from blogs to sites of actual organizations) have a usable sitemap to direct you to the rest of the site or the archives. It's been well over a decade since xkcd has put anything out good or enjoyable but one comic from 2010 illustrated how ridiculous this was even in 2010 (it's the "Explain XKCD" website, not the actual website).

 

[HalHalliday]

Modern Internet really doesn't want you downloading anything.

Maybe I've gotten use to this, or just find the way to scrap things I want anyways. But -

For modern web woes, it's the fact that few places (from blogs to sites of actual organizations) have a usable sitemap to direct you to the rest of the site or the archives.

What angers me more now, is how everything is relative. This post is from 2 days ago. This video is from 4 years ago. Cool - can you just give me an actual date? I'm big a boy - can read a calendar you know!

I'd like to think it was just made to make things easier for people on social media, but part of me is pretty sure it's so no one can actually keep track of the past.

 

[306h4Ge5eJUJ]

What angers me more now, is how everything is relative. This post is from 2 days ago. This video is from 4 years ago. Cool - can you just give me an actual date? I'm big a boy - can read a calendar you know!

Sometimes they graciously allow you to glance at the actual timestamp when you hover over it. I can't find the site for the life of me, but I swear I've seen "posted a decade ago" before. Because fuck you, year resolution is still clearly too fine-grained.

 

[BiggestKai]

Which sites do you use for your music torrents? I may just try that and getting a microSD card to hold all the downloads.

It's not a dating program, but Soulseekqt has a load of stuff and is my go to for music.

 

[30+GameOvers]

I miss when people were allowed to civilly disagree with each other without some kill team of trannyjannies swooping in to kill any discussion.

Now its all about controlling narratives to an insane degree to where online discourse is all but dead and all they care about is e-begging and giving nothing but lipservice about community. Really puts into perspective just how out of control astroturfing and marketing firms are today.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I’d love to know why images on the modern web are being converted from JPEG to WebP.

It's even more irritating when the URL says it's not WEBP, but it downloads as WEBP.