Modern Web Woes - I'm mad at the internet

[Combustion Engine]

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.

You are not allowed high resolution, high fidelity images using real formats, only some Jewgle retard's hobby project prototype off some video codec and turned internet plague. Why do webshitters even set up reverse proxies to serve webpiss instead of the original extension following some made-up rules like UA and accept headers, if they aren't relying on Cloudflare Polish to do that for them? Because they are subhuman retards. No other explanation needed.

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

Good luck doing anything about it in your browser nowadays. Firefox has removed the ancient "image.webp.enabled" flag because sites and CDNs increasingly ignore them, and imagine thinking chromshit browsers would let you do something like that in the first place. You're basically at the mercy of those retards, and your safest bet is using fucking curl to get the damn original image unmolested by google niggers, twisted and forever compromised as if they poured their soy latte on it.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

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

It also sucks when a website gets rid of the non-JS version and forces one to turn JS on.

Like with GMail. Used to have a nice and fast-loading non-JS version that I could access on a toaster. Now it's this JS-heavy "Google Workspace" BS where you can't copy and paste text from the list of emails, ad blocker is blocking thousands of elements, and if one is offline there's this stupid "panic mode" it goes into. I also don't like how it's constantly loading. And of course, the Google site itself is non-functional without JavaScript now. Not a fan of that "everything has to keep updating" BS mentality...

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Now gocomics uses a paywall for older comics.

"We're not trying to slow you down!", my ass.

 

[Super Mario Brothers]

I hate the mass raping of the internet and I could list off a million things but what I really hate is the sexual assault of the English language. I have an extremely bad habit of copying other people's writing styles, but this hasn't been an actual problem until recently. Every website, I mean almost every one, is now either written by AI or Indians. I see broken English so often that I have to do a double take to make sure I don't accidentally emulate it.

I used to think the internet would be the cure to illiteracy. Now I'm thinking of just going offline for everything except for work and other needs. (I've mostly fucked off of social media anyway.) Wikipedia is the only informational site that I can think of that isn't completely like this, and that's only marginally better.

 

[Pork Wellington]

I hate the mass raping of the internet and I could list off a million things but what I really hate is the sexual assault of the English language. I have an extremely bad habit of copying other people's writing styles, but this hasn't been an actual problem until recently. Every website, I mean almost every one, is now either written by AI or Indians. I see broken English so often that I have to do a double take to make sure I don't accidentally emulate it.

I used to think the internet would be the cure to illiteracy. Now I'm thinking of just going offline for everything except for work and other needs. (I've mostly fucked off of social media anyway.) Wikipedia is the only informational site that I can think of that isn't completely like this, and that's only marginally better.

This is also a problem for me as well. Late last year I realised that I had developed a bad habit of regularly second guessing my spelling because of constantly seeing bad spelling online.
Reddit was the primary cause of this. I don't have an account or browse it casually, but like a lot of people, I use it as a suffix when doing a search for an answer.
Reddit really is the worst website in all history. A lot of the time, people can't even get the spelling right in their title, and no one seems to care. Fucking retards.

 

[TheHarbinger]

Reddit is rolling out posts that are not available when using the old.reddit client. You must use the new client to view them.

 

[stares at error messages]

Reddit is rolling out posts that are not available when using the old.reddit client. You must use the new client to view them.

I guess you could try using redlib if you really need to. https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib Normal reddit is impossible to look at. I don't know if something is open or not. I end up leaving the page and losing the tab because the open post in just a popup. And it's super resource intensive. It's a total plague shit web site. I hate when people link to it because it's always a mess to decipher how to use it and takes up too much memory.

 

[Merton J. Dingle]

I guess you could try using redlib if you really need to. https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib Normal reddit is impossible to look at. I don't know if something is open or not. I end up leaving the page and losing the tab because the open post in just a popup. And it's super resource intensive. It's a total plague shit web site. I hate when people link to it because it's always a mess to decipher how to use it and takes up too much memory.

This. Using frontends to clean up these pozzed mainstream sites when you're trying to scrape useful info off them is essential to using the modern web. Libreddit is pretty good as well.

 

[Max Weber]

Microsoft Q&A has always been useless, but now the jeets on it started using AI to provide even less info while bloating the text size.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

If one tries to search on Amazon for "CRT TV", one gets results with stuff that converts to or from analog. Or tiny arcade things imitating CRT. But not CRT TV, at least on the first page anyway. If one searches for CRT TV VCR combo, one gets results of VCR and DVD combos. Which are way overpriced for what they are. Amazon search engine is BS.

 

[seri0us]

If one tries to search on Amazon for "CRT TV", one gets results with stuff that converts to or from analog. Or tiny arcade things imitating CRT. But not CRT TV, at least on the first page anyway. If one searches for CRT TV VCR combo, one gets results of VCR and DVD combos. Which are way overpriced for what they are. Amazon search engine is BS.

to be fair, most people who look up "CRT TV" or "CRT TV VCR combo" end up clicking and buying one of those secondary/tertiary things

when's the last time CRTs were made anyway?

 

[ToroidalBoat]

"Verify you are human" -- "Cloudflare" BS

[that annoying ice fishing yeti] - Google

"Video unavailable Watch on YouTube" - YT

[AI "answers"] - too many search sites

"Sign in with Google" - too many sites

None of that 5 BS were normal in 2015.

 

[30+GameOvers]

So, I was going to change my browser today after a complete debacle that the recent FireFox forced update a month or so was. In case you forgot, your extensions were disabled due to an outdated certificate if you didn't update to a newer version, the same one that introduced a nasty backdoor that stole your data or later versions.
Well, after some googling, turns out that the way to get extensions back is extremely simple:

*Type "aboutonfig" in the upper text field/search bar
*Find a setting called "xpinstall.signatures.required"
*Set that shit to "False"
*Watch as your extensions come back to life, never update again

As far as I can tell, my adblock works fine now, where as before I had popups and ads up the ass from quite literally every site I visited. Really, some of you niggers actually browse the web like this?
Anyways, for some reason this didn't come up in my search a day before Mozilla shot itself in the foot and I spend all day doing research to stop my browser from self-imploding. Now, all it takes is one google search and I immediately get my answer, so I'm just going to blame modern search algorithms too while I'm at it.
I hope this post can save someone else time, as for me I'm just glad I don't have to spend even more of mine looking for some new browser. If it wasn't for sites requiring you to update your browser or putting up a cuckflare captcha everywhere I wouldn't even have to bother, but what can you do?

 

[Big Judge Cock]

Mozilla are buck broken faggots and you're just delaying the inevitable.

 

[jray4559]

So, I was going to change my browser today after a complete debacle that the recent FireFox forced update a month or so was. In case you forgot, your extensions were disabled due to an outdated certificate if you didn't update to a newer version, the same one that introduced a nasty backdoor that stole your data or later versions.

I switched to the Developer edition after the exact same thing happened a few years ago. I didn't know about any backdoor though, I'll have to look into that. (if it hasn't been patched out already)

 

[GeorgeFloydFentanylStash]

Mozilla are buck broken faggots and you're just delaying the inevitable.

I use Brave and LibreWolf. I know the drama around the devs with LibreWolf. At the end of the day, i’m not paying for the browser nor am I contributing to it.

 

[geeker99]

I use Brave and LibreWolf. I know the drama around the devs with LibreWolf. At the end of the day, i’m not paying for the browser nor am I contributing to it.

i like brave, easy tor connection & good adblock.

 

[HalHalliday]

I hate general music slop and AI music.
I hate that YouTube, Spotify, and other streaming services are no longer usable for finding anything.

When last.fm died, I used Spotify.
User-generated playlists were relatively good and yielded at least a few songs to check out later.
Then the bot-playing music scam meta started, and it all went to suffocate and die in a big Indian pile of shit.

Used YouTube for a while after that.
Not that great, but with a trained algo account, you could still dig up some interesting stuff.
Then the modern wave of AI came in. At first, it was just images getting swapped out for AI illustrations - I could live with that. People trying to stand out among all the chillout and lo-fi slop channels - sure, whatever, I get it. Content exploded, and it got way harder to find anything decent. Well, at least it still had real songs! Now? AI music - just to make monetization easy.
Aren't you happy? All this beep-boop human music to listen to while working? Powered by Mohan's executive farts. Eco-friendly!

It’s often said that most people use five websites.
I now use two. Kiwi Farms and one more forum. What’s even the point of the Internet?

 

[crowabunga]

What’s even the point of the Internet?

I was about to counter and say, "oh, I use YouTube for..." and realized that, essentially, I'm in the same boat. I might grab specific content from YouTube, or Facebook, or Google, but for actual discovery and discussion it's all here on KF or few other niche forums.

Everything else I use I only treat as a download source: YouTube, archive.org, LibGen, I don't use them for discovery or discussion, I just download shit from them. If the mainstream web was reduced to a search engine+hosting+rss service and I put together an RSS feed for my favorite YouTube video producers, nothing would really change.

 

[Hellwalker]

I think this has been mentioned dozens of times but I really hate how most software has a Discord server that you need to go to when you have an issue or inquiry about something. I recently had to join the Discord of a piece of software I use to find if an issue that I'm facing with it (And the Discord was pretty much the only place I could go because it's relatively obscure and the FAQ doesn't mention this problem) was solved by anyone else. Luckily, a solution (by who believe is the creator) was there but why was I forced to join that Discord when the issue and solution could've been brought up anywhere else. There is a damn Github too but there's no issues opened. The Discord is encouraged.