Modern Web Woes - I'm mad at the internet

TheHarbinger said:
The ideal corporate internet is not with your own programs or free browsing. Just approved applications with no modifications. That do very specific tasks. So you have the Walmart application. Then the Netflix application. Then your banking application. And no web browsers anymore. You still have an internet just no more personal homepages or browsing. If you want social media you must use the first party application. And everything requires 2FA and Real-ID.

Newer devices like smart televisions and phones are always moving people away from browsers. They want their own interfaces. We've seen the extreme centralization of the web with social media dominating traffic. Now the rest of the internet is being consolidated into a few applications or sites like Netflix or YouTube. Where 99% of videos linked any website, including this one, are only at YouTube.

Internet 4.0 or beyond is without browsers. Likely even the name 'browser' will be gone as you are no longer freely surfing the net.
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I wonder if there will even be a way to access a browser then, or will it be reduced to some Linux tier software reserved for niche hobbyists and autistic trannies.
 
>go to a site like a news site
>soy popup asking to turn off adblock or do some other BS
>set view page style to no style to bypass
>what's wanted is sandwiched between endless walls of giant site and "social media" icons
>good luck finding it

This is really getting irritating.

(And turning "JavaScript" off may make the site more or less non-functional.)
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
(And turning "JavaScript" off may make the site more or less non-functional.)
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I visited an (almost) government website yesterday - refused to work without JS. How is this fucking legal? Especially with how bloated sites are nowadays - do they expect me to carry a gaming rig with me to view the web?
 
This might be too autistic and specific but remember when websites would give every user their own subdomain? Like retard.deviantart.com? It’s nice that neocities and strawpage does it but that’s a tiny fraction of the internet and something I truly miss.

It’s not fun or nearly as special to give out a site.com/@FuckYou link.

Edit: lmao I just pinged a dead guy
 
Every single proxy site I tried recently either doesn't work right, does not work at all, or won't work with private browsing. Or they require the user to subscribe and pay.

Zeftax said:
I visited an (almost) government website yesterday - refused to work without JS.
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That ubiquitous soy hipster move to "everything JavaScript" is ruining the internets.
 
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<3 norafawn said:
This might be too autistic and specific but remember when websites would give every user their own subdomain? Like retard.deviantart.com? It’s nice that neocities and strawpage does it but that’s a tiny fraction of the internet and something I truly miss.
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It was neat, but I never liked the big endian vs little endian divide in web addresses. The normalization where after the top level is the actual address is the norm. The reason why www was the "prefix" was because that was the protocol. Say www.kiwifarms.org, that meant a standard website. But you also had stuff like ftp.kiwifarms.org that mean it was for file transfer. Wether you have www, ftp, gopher, smtp or whatever as a prefix, those told the people accessing your servers which protocol they should use.
 
@Fig Kommandant I’m not going to guess your age but back in the olden times the browser was just one application and didn’t do “everything “. Ie10 didn’t do ftp and it certainly didn’t do gopher, so the issue you’re describing literally did not exist. If you wanted ftp you would open filezilla and connect to ftp.gayshit.org.
 
<3 norafawn said:
@Fig Kommandant I’m not going to guess your age but back in the olden times the browser was just one application and didn’t do “everything “. Ie10 didn’t do ftp and it certainly didn’t do gopher, so the issue you’re describing literally did not exist. If you wanted ftp you would open filezilla and connect to ftp.gayshit.org.
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>Ie10
Newfag detected.

In the actual olden times, it was not uncommon for your web browser to support both WWW and Gopher protocols. I seem to remember Netscape supporting it, and I know for a fact Internet Explorer supported it up through IE5.

Likewise, it was not uncommon for your web browser to have a minimal FTP client built in. Sure, you'd be better served by paying for WS_FTP but if all you had was Internet Explorer? IE would be an FTP client for you, and even integrate the FTP site into Windows Explorer.

I'm still slightly pissed off no one supports in-browser FTP anymore.
 
<3 norafawn said:
I’m not going to guess your age but back in the olden times the browser was just one application and didn’t do “everything “.
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As @PC LOAD LETTER said, it wasn't a full program thing, but browsers did have FTP capabilities and more importantly, it wasn't which program but which adresss. If you knew it was this or that adress, you'd change program. It was only in the early to mid 2000's that web browsers started to become an "everything-app", which also meant you could give subdomain names to user blogs which was the original point that I objected to.

PC LOAD LETTER said:
I'm still slightly pissed off no one supports in-browser FTP anymore.
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Same but RSS. Opera and Vivaldi are the only ones who do it still.
 
FFS! This internet just keeps getting worse and worse. Cannot find anything this, "send verification code" that, "sign in with Google" this, "your browser is outdated" that, "please disable your ad blocker" this, "Video unavailable Watch on YouTube" that, non-functional sites this, "Connection timed out" that! Endless, endless, endless BULLSHIT.

aaarrrggghhh...

I really miss how much better the internets worked before Current Year. Back before "apps" on "smartphones", "social media", and that ubiquitous crappy AI "assistant" craze.
 
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The ATF Disliked That said:
my apartment complex requires you to use a shitty fucking app to pay rent on. I fucking hate these management company ran places that do this. I'm tired of every task needing to be done through apps that are proprietary.
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Same here. And the apartments only allow payments online. This leaves me either paying by a bank/credit card or linking my bank account for an "e-check" both options having processing fees for the "privilege" of paying online.
 
Señora Airi said:
And the apartments only allow payments online.
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That is really, really, really, very shortsighted. What if the internet goes down? What about those who cannot afford internet? It also reminds me of the laundry rooms at an apartment complex I used to be at: IIRC a "smartphone" "app" was needed to pay to use the machines. What's wrong with the older coin-operated way that doesn't need internet?

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ToroidalBoat said:
FFS! This internet just keeps getting worse and worse. "your browser is outdated".
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Almost all of those "your browser is outdated" messages come from scam websites looking to rot your computer with crypto mining or whatever. They just place them in banners on websites knowing that unsophisticated users will click them. And the kind of people paying for or spamming those banners are usually just one step ahead or ublock or some other browser based security as well. So everyone will see them a few times a year if not every day if you're a basic user without any advertisement or script blocking.

Of course 99% of advertisements on the web are scams or immoral business. Even the 'legit' business that mass advertise are things like live concert and sports ticket resellers which should be illegal. Or sports gambling apps which are also being mass advertised in literally every single possible facet and visual surface in the world. And this isn't something new. The ads during the 90s were almost all spam. The spam was so bad during the late 90s that you could potentially get thousands of unsolicited emails in a single day before webmail or ISP mail services had decent filters.
 
TheHarbinger said:
Almost all of those "your browser is outdated" messages come from scam websites looking to rot your computer with crypto mining or whatever.
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This was on quite a number of proxy sites I saw when I was checking out proxy sites earlier. One is greeted with a page saying "your browser is out of date" with a note that if you are using Firefox, it won't work in private browsing. Legit sites -- like Yahoo! Mail -- can do that "browser is outdated" BS if the browser is less than 5 years old.
 
Modern web design or the lack of it.

The web is suffering what I deemed "White Slab Syndrome". Most modern websites are just white/black slabs with maybe a couple images if you are lucky. Hardly any color nowadays.

This is the main reason why the internet feels so empty and boring now. It has simply lost all of its color and websites have lost their individuality from one another.

Take a popular website right now, and then compare what it looked like 20 years ago or older. Difference is night and day.
Twitter from 2008 to now.

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CyberAutist111 said:
Modern web design or the lack of it.

The web is suffering what I deemed "White Slab Syndrome". Most modern websites are just white/black slabs with maybe a couple images if you are lucky. Hardly any color nowadays.

This is the main reason why the internet feels so empty and boring now. It has simply lost all of its color and websites have lost their individuality from one another.

Take a popular website right now, and then compare what it looked like 20 years ago or older. Difference is night and day.
Twitter from 2008 to now.

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And unfortunately projects that wanted to bring that color back (one example is Neocities) were overtaken by loony troons. Sad!
 
I don't care if I'm late on this, as you probably know YouTube has AI generated auto dubbing on videos now. That's already the most depressingly retarded shit imaginable but if I'm logged on or on the app then I can turn it off. But did you know if you are in a country whose primary language is not English and you view an English video without logging in it will set you to an AI voice for a different language and you cannot turn off auto dubbing without logging in.

Companies serve us AI wherever it is not needed all the time for reasons I can't comprehend which is enough to make someone MATI. But leave it to YouTube to shove AI down your throat that you cannot remove without playing along with their rules. That is enough to make me want to fedpost to any company who does this.
 
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