Modern Web Woes - I'm mad at the internet

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It surprises me how many websites block VPNs from browsing but not Tor, and no, it's not only reddit doing this. It doesn't make sense.
 
888Flux said:
I really enjoy how every other video on the Internet now seems to be a vertical video in 240p with some ungodly aspect ratio where its just a fucking rectangle but vertical.
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Someone told me that modern movies are actually made with this in mind now, and nothing important ever happens outside the middle of the frame because they want it all to be "clippable" for TikTok or its billion clones.
 
Kosher Dill said:
Someone told me that modern movies are actually made with this in mind now, and nothing important ever happens outside the middle of the frame because they want it all to be "clippable" for TikTok or its billion clones.
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From the early 70s to the 90s, a lot of films were blocked so they could be cropped to 4:3, to reduce the need for pan and scan when transferred for TV. The studios always compromise their art to target the widest (lol) audience.
 
teriyakiburns said:
From the early 70s to the 90s, a lot of films were blocked so they could be cropped to 4:3, to reduce the need for pan and scan when transferred for TV. The studios always compromise their art to target the widest (lol) audience.
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Open matte combined with lazy editors always wins.

I think it was the home release of AI that was chosen to see what people preferred. It was released as both 4:3 and 16:9(letterboxed? can't remember).
 
I hate Wikipedia. I don't just hate the content on Wikipedia because it's acidine summaries of dishonest news articles, I also hate the software Media Wiki. The Media Wiki theme that is the default and which is the one that Wikipedia uses gobbles up way too many system resources. You can try to check something real quick and leave open the page in a tab, and time later these stupid pages are using up 3 or more times memory of what would be reasonable for a digital fucking book.

Generally, all these blog website, which are too digital fucking books, seem to universally have excess JavaScript nonsense that adds nothing to the page other than bloat. If you disable JavaScript nothing on the site works because all links are AJAX requests. It's all a big screw you from the site developers.
 
Kosher Dill said:
Someone told me that modern movies are actually made with this in mind now, and nothing important ever happens outside the middle of the frame because they want it all to be "clippable" for TikTok or its billion clones.
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If you work for Netflix or Hulu as an editor or cinematographer they make you take a course for this. Where you show that you understand the rules about shooting for cell phones and making sure that shots are as close as possible. They also tell the writers to write in scenes where characters are shouting something into the camera that they can push as a meme or joke. So every episode has some sassy retort or person yelling out a catchphrase. They also are pushing for shows to be 'watchable' without viewing them. So you can binge a show as background noise and even if you can't see the show the characters will describe all of their actions out loud anyways.

But broadcast television and older movies were barely different. They'd stage the actors so that the product placement always came through. And time the shows around commercial breaks. And movies had to be edited to fit into theatrical hours. Or laugh track shows where the actors pause like they are frozen while the audience are given the "LAUGH!" signal from a producer. Modern websites are like this. Where the sites are designed around where the advertisements are (same with newspapers and magazines). And practically every other 'news' article is really just product placement disguised as some news item.
 
It's BS how "Fandom" now requires you to sign in to view comments. It is part of that BS "verification" trend infesting the internets.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
It's BS how "Fandom" now requires you to sign in to view comments. It is part of that BS "verification" trend infesting the internets.
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If you click on the stars for rating on Poojeetzon, then they ask you to sign in. If you scroll down the page you can read the comments without signing in. It's amazing how horrible Poojeets are. They don't implement the bad features correctly and they agree to implement the stupidest bad user experience ideas. They also never fix anything and only upsell companies on more bullshit platform nonsense.
 
888Flux said:
I really enjoy how every other video on the Internet now seems to be a vertical video in 240p
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Horizontal video in vertical video on a horizontal screen. It's really like a postage stamp like that vid said.

stares at error messages said:
they ask you to sign in
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Oh yeah, on Amazon you can't read reviews without signing in. Why is signing in to view comments even "needed"?
 
ToroidalBoat said:
Oh yeah, on Amazon you can't read reviews without signing in. Why is signing in to view comments even "needed"?
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Am I missing something? You can reed the reviews, but they just like to be difficult. Like on poojeetle jeetmail it always asks you if you would like to send an unsubscribe response instead of moving the letter to spam.

They clearly want everyone to be on jeetphone and tracked with the jeetphone's jeet IMEI
 
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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Never sign with a place that requires you to use a fucking app to pay rent. These fucking apps are more than likely jeet-coded and have bugs galore on the backend. I paid my rent on time on Sept 30th (for due in October) and sent a follow up on the 3rd and emailed them explaining this since it showed I had a balance still, just to be safe. Now they're saying I'm late on rent even though they followed up with me saying my check was accepted. I'm almost certain the second photos of the check overrode the first because these apps are dogshit.
 
Since youtube shorts and ADHD slop bullshit is a hot topic nowadays, I notice the same trend with chatrooms and even communication. Discord is the worst offender of this with how its now the new "community hub" for a lot of fandoms and fanbases, but you are forced to try and be in a conversation with 50 people talking over eachother at high speeds. Unfortunately this is the most popular thing now.

With forums, you can at least take your time to read posts and put together thought out responses, but some communities have completely abandoned forums in favor of this high speed bullshit.
 
I like to use SearX and cycle through instances every so often to prevent being bubbled, but recently it seems all of the SearX instances have been reduced to utter uselessness. Quotes, synonyms, specifying site, doesn't matter, the results are completely irrelevant to the search query, or just an error.

Is there some kind of result poisoning happening? It's strange that not a single instance (and I'm not picking any of the gay-sounding ones) can perform simple queries any more.
 
I love that I can’t access my bank account or buy a bus ticket, because a Pajeet fucked up DynamoDB on N. Virginia aws region.

It’s great that probably up to 70% of internet is hosted on aws, azure or gcp handled and maintained by h1b pajeets and chinks.
 
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