Modern Web Woes - I'm mad at the internet

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Maggots on a Train v2 said:
I hate bloated webpages that load for 30+ seconds, then one script fails to load and the whole page fails and has to be reloaded. This is atrocious. It shouldn't take 5 minutes and 10+ attempts to finally load one web page.
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A recent phenomenon that makes me hope all JavaScript developers go to hell when the soy inevitably kills them is that of pages which appear to load fine, but a few seconds later get replaced with a giant full screen Oops, something went wrong! message.

I think it's due to some pointless globohomo analytics quietly failing to load, which their error handler interprets as a critical error so it displays the "friendly" error message.

A while ago I wanted to order a pizza and couldn't because I have New Relic blocked about 10 different ways at the browser and network level which totally broke their website. It pissed me off so much I took the time to e-mail the company just so they knew they lost a customer because of their awful website.
Sunflower Samurai said:
Isnt "vibecoding" this faggy buzzword for incompetent people writing inefficient code that has to be brute forced by efficient hardware or languages
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Faggot buzzword for retards who literally have no idea how to code so they let LLMs do it for them. Typically produces sloppy and bug ridden code which the retard has no idea how to fix since they didn't write it to begin with.

If an LLM's dataset or context doesn't have a readily available answer for you, it'll frequently make shit up, so these guys get led around in circles when they're doing anything more sophisticated than a CRUD application.
 
I hate it when I go looking for information, and instead find some 5 page off topic 100 reply TDS spergout I have to scroll through. And then the info ultimately isn't even in there.
 
Anyone know what specifically happened to the internet in the past month or two? Every page needs to "verify" you now. Endless captchas, cloudflare "prove you're human" buttons, and "something went wrong" messages. Nothing has changed on my end, but all at once all kinds of pages and services are denying access I assume because of not enough identifiers from my devices.
 
Moon Pie said:
Anyone know what specifically happened to the internet in the past month or two? Every page needs to "verify" you now. Endless captchas, cloudflare "prove you're human" buttons, and "something went wrong" messages. Nothing has changed on my end, but all at once all kinds of pages and services are denying access I assume because of not enough identifiers from my devices.
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A shitton of scrapers bombarding every page imaginable to gather data for AI training, so everyone started blocking requests at the smallest suspicion. Not that it actually helps, of course.
 
Max Weber said:
A shitton of scrapers bombarding every page imaginable to gather data for AI training, so everyone started blocking requests at the smallest suspicion. Not that it actually helps, of course.
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It helps even less than would have been initially assumed because AI companies have already moved on to agentic ai scraping browsing anyway, not even cloudflare has an answer for that.
 
Moon Pie said:
Anyone know what specifically happened to the internet in the past month or two? Every page needs to "verify" you now. Endless captchas, cloudflare "prove you're human" buttons, and "something went wrong" messages. Nothing has changed on my end, but all at once all kinds of pages and services are denying access I assume because of not enough identifiers from my devices.
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Glowies create a problem and then offer you the solution. If you haven't noticed with all the talk about requiring ID to browse the internet now, they'll probably ask you to upload your ID to bypass cloudflare captchas soon. It's all for your safety, goy.
 
Was looking for a site where one can trim a vid online, then download the clip. All I could find so far is a site where you have to upload the vid, and another that requires either "Google Chrome" or "Microsoft Edge" to use it. Now I know for sure website developers are definitely making websites optimized only run in those craptacular browsers.

aaarrrggghhh...

Moon Pie said:
Every page needs to "verify" you now.
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It was never an issue before Current Year, or even 2020-ish. I also don't like how you have to "send a verification code" to do stuff like signing into e-mail or bank sites.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
Was looking for a site where one can trim a vid online, then download the clip. All I could find so far is a site where you have to upload the vid, and another that requires either "Google Chrome" or "Microsoft Edge" to use it. Now I know for sure website developers are definitely making websites optimized only run in those craptacular browsers.

aaarrrggghhh...
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I don't have an online recommendation for you, but if you'd like a localized option for this then Handbrake should be good for you.
 
CEO of Autism said:
Glowies create a problem and then offer you the solution. If you haven't noticed with all the talk about requiring ID to browse the internet now, they'll probably ask you to upload your ID to bypass cloudflare captchas soon. It's all for your safety, goy.
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We're probably under a year away from Cloudflare and most 'protection' sites requiring 2FA for all verification attempts using a phone or ID. They are aggressively pushing checkbox verification for every site that uses the service. Cloudflare is almost entirely a scam. A bot can simply bypass their checks easily and people are just aggressively and needlessly slowed from using a site properly. And even if you use the same credentials, computer, and IP address, you'll still sometimes encounter the verification process as it's all security theater.
 
Speaking of blocking AI bots, there was some push by bloggers to block them and how useless that is.

Bots ignore robots.txt, and even when you block their IP ranges, they'll just spin up new ones with instancing and such. On top of that, they're always swapping user-agent string to pretend they're legit users, with different browsers and OSes, etc.

(15th June 2024) Perplexity AI Is Lying about Their User Agent
(28th June 2024) Perplexity AI, Robots.txt, and Other Questions
(2nd July 2024) As If Perplexity Didn’t Suck Enough They’re Also Hotlinking Images
(6th August 2025) Perplexity Doesn’t Give a Shit About Consent

I wonder how much of that could be mitigated by being less surgical and more akin to a butcher. Just IP range block whole continents, countries, big server farms like Azure, AWS, Firebase, whatever. Would that make things better?

Oftentimes, it's said how much better the Internet was in the past, when it was only: "under 35 something hwite men". But I think this narrative is false. There were normies, old people, women, etc. online back then. It's similar to how everyone now claims they: "grew up on the *chans", lol, how quirky and autistic, le based schizo, etc., etc. It's totally fake.

Personally, I would say the biggest difference is the origin of the Internet users. If you could aggressively fence off portions of the net, things would improve. I don't know how, it's probably retarded, but,-
Look, oftentimes, idk, you just want to connect to, like, a MAN level net, hear from people there, in the area where you are, you know? Why should I be subjected to the "global public square"? Why should I care what some Malaysian is saying? Make the Internet the US and maybe its vassals, like God intended, and forget the rest. What would you lose?
 
What is the point of having a "scrolling progress bar" at the top of a page? And while that's maybe a minor annoyance at most, what sucks a lot more is when a site does that "subscribe now to read more" BS, and when you go Page Style --> No Style, there's endless giant "social media" icons covering a whole screen, making an article hard to find.
 
HalHalliday said:
Make the Internet the US and maybe its vassals, like God intended, and forget the rest. What would you lose?
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Their goal for the last decade or 2 has been to turn the worlds internet into shitty california media oligarchy shit I'd personally take shooting the shit with some random fucking malasyian whos' pissed at me about some dumb shit instead of calling for further clampdowns and shittifying of everything.
 
Watched a video on dead internet theory etc, and all the comments were in way of "I can no longer tell if I'm watching AI or not", and I'm like. Where? Your shorts? Your #FYP doomscrolling? AI if anything is giving you a reason to actively seek out real creators, but instead they complain their unhealthy scrolling is being affected.
 
Moon Pie said:
Anyone know what specifically happened to the internet in the past month or two? Every page needs to "verify" you now. Endless captchas, cloudflare "prove you're human" buttons, and "something went wrong" messages. Nothing has changed on my end, but all at once all kinds of pages and services are denying access I assume because of not enough identifiers from my devices.
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AI Scrapers - they are aggressively scraping as many sites as possible to train their AI models
 
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