Modern Web Woes - I'm mad at the internet
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Okay, this is serious.
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Every cloud has a silver lining as they sa-, wait a minute
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I cant understand why brainlets need site apps when they can just type the first three letters of the url into their phone browser and it works perfectly the same for 90% of things in 2025. All you history and logins are saved so its not like its requiring extra memory or steps on your part. Like why the fuck do you need an app for Instagram when it works exactly the same as just typing "instagram" into your search bar? I see peoples phones and its literally like 400 apps for different websites.
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Each app, on the other hand, is its own self-contained world--when you connect to an app, you're connecting to everything related to that service and nothing else.
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wasn't enough.
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PWAs were supposed to solve this. It's not widely used because Android and iOS rather have everyone locked in their app store.
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I felt the same way when an app was promoted as more convenient than using a mobile browser and the mobile version of the site in question. Far easier for me to navigate and do what I need to do without downloading yet another app that will be updated constantly with useless new features and buggy updates that require more buggy updates.
Thread tax: Any site that claims their software will run on "win 64" systems only to find out from the combination of trial and error and internet search it will only work on Win10 or higher. It's not that hard to display "Win 10 or higher 64 bit systems."
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To be fair, I'd expect that to be 7+, but not XP, etc. 10+ is kind of a given these days, but yeah, that's annoying.
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I remember being at a function and we all wanted food so we agreed on a restaurant.
I was like 'I'll call them what do you guys want' and some other guy is like 'its okay I'm ordering on GrubHub' and spent several minutes fiddling with updating the app, recovering his password, 2fa, entering custom order requests, forgetting his credit card details, going back only to see the custom order details were cleared, putting in his contact info, etc.
At some point I'm like 'it will literally take me 60 seconds to place the order by phone' and he's just like 'but this is more convenient'
Same people who work as a low level office worker or a janitor and finance 2026 pickup trucks at 20% interest for 8 years cause 'what if someone needs help moving.'
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I think what I hate the most about the present state of the Internet is how it's changed me in relation to it.
In the past, it was a treat to be on the Internet. It felt like you went somewhere each time you sat down, dialed-up, and connected. It did suck in many ways; it was, I imagine, like diving in those ancient, bulky metallic suits. Heavy, slow, abysmal view. And yet, at the bottom, looking through that crappy tiny window, you could feel excitement and wonder. Where will I go now? What will I do? Who will I e-mail?
I'm sure part of it can be chalked up to being young and naive, or to the novelty of it. People even then were bitching about the Internet and its users. But even still, it was different. When you used it, your approach was different. You didn't have to be so damn defensive all the time.
Nowadays the wonder and excitement are long gone. All you can feel is disgust, and your guard must be up.
To do anything on the modern Internet, first come the technicals: the browser, the ad-blocker, the captcha-solvers, your VPN and DNS and such. The second thing, which few mention, is that your mind must always cycle through a multitude of questions. Do I need to register? Why is it loading so slow? What personal info do they want? Do I need another email? Phone number? Is it even worth it? Do I need it? Do I need to subscribe? Is there a way to cancel? Is this a scam? What's the catch? Is this an AI? Should I archive it? Is this person real? And ad nauseam infinitum.
The diving suit is now a hazmat suit, in and out of the sewers. Let's be quick and done with it.
I hate the Internet.
In the past, it was a treat to be on the Internet. It felt like you went somewhere each time you sat down, dialed-up, and connected. It did suck in many ways; it was, I imagine, like diving in those ancient, bulky metallic suits. Heavy, slow, abysmal view. And yet, at the bottom, looking through that crappy tiny window, you could feel excitement and wonder. Where will I go now? What will I do? Who will I e-mail?
I'm sure part of it can be chalked up to being young and naive, or to the novelty of it. People even then were bitching about the Internet and its users. But even still, it was different. When you used it, your approach was different. You didn't have to be so damn defensive all the time.
Nowadays the wonder and excitement are long gone. All you can feel is disgust, and your guard must be up.
To do anything on the modern Internet, first come the technicals: the browser, the ad-blocker, the captcha-solvers, your VPN and DNS and such. The second thing, which few mention, is that your mind must always cycle through a multitude of questions. Do I need to register? Why is it loading so slow? What personal info do they want? Do I need another email? Phone number? Is it even worth it? Do I need it? Do I need to subscribe? Is there a way to cancel? Is this a scam? What's the catch? Is this an AI? Should I archive it? Is this person real? And ad nauseam infinitum.
The diving suit is now a hazmat suit, in and out of the sewers. Let's be quick and done with it.
I hate the Internet.
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and yet you still participate in it. hmm yes i am very smart
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Nah, I'm just that retarded.
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I hate YouTube video essayists.
Everythign has to be "explained" by some retarded pretentious faggot. It doesn't matter if it's a real life historical event, video game trivia, or some obscure piece of Internet media from 10 years ago. I don't even know really how to put my hatred for this in words. It's digital necrophilia. Rather then creating something new, just get out Adobe Premiere and skim over a Wikipedia article. This is "content".
What ever happened to just discovering media on your own? What ever happened to just reading about something? Who watches this? Why is it literally everywhere?
It seems everything is the most drawn out, drain-cleaner-down-urethra slog that takes a Wikipedia article and transforms it into 4 hours or a 15 second shortform content made by an Indian SEO farm. No one makes anything out of passion. FUck, no one even makes things for clout anymore. If it isn't directly monetizable then why even bother. If it can't be sponsored by Surfshark why even bother.
I can't stand this. I can barely stand YouTube in general, but it seems like all of the content is aimed towards an autistic child on 20mg of adderall. This type of "content" extends far beyond YouTube too.
Everythign has to be "explained" by some retarded pretentious faggot. It doesn't matter if it's a real life historical event, video game trivia, or some obscure piece of Internet media from 10 years ago. I don't even know really how to put my hatred for this in words. It's digital necrophilia. Rather then creating something new, just get out Adobe Premiere and skim over a Wikipedia article. This is "content".
What ever happened to just discovering media on your own? What ever happened to just reading about something? Who watches this? Why is it literally everywhere?
It seems everything is the most drawn out, drain-cleaner-down-urethra slog that takes a Wikipedia article and transforms it into 4 hours or a 15 second shortform content made by an Indian SEO farm. No one makes anything out of passion. FUck, no one even makes things for clout anymore. If it isn't directly monetizable then why even bother. If it can't be sponsored by Surfshark why even bother.
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This is exactly why I stopped using YouTube for virtually anything except looking up specific clips or for extremely practical things, like how to fix something. These videos are made for people that cannot or will not get their information from text-based sources, like Wikipedia. The thing to remember is that the average person is a terrible reader, even when they don't have a diminished attention span, and even in countries that do a fair bit better than the U.S. in reading scores, like East Asia or the Nordic countries (For reference, over half the U.S. reads at an 8th grade level or below and only about 2% read at a college level despite over 30% of the population having college degrees).
To me all of these video dominated websites, like social media, Twitch, and YouTube, are nothing more than normie containment zones, and those of us that are completely comfortable spending the bulk of our time online reading text should only use them when we need to get some piece of information that can't be found elsewhere.
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I think the sweet spot was between early dialup internet and the Clown World honknet. Fast speed and no Current Year enshittification.
It was also the sweet spot of dealing with internet advertisements. Dialup 'net had no popup blocking, and honknet can foil adblocker.
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Here's something new~ish.
I saw a video by another woman about the first phenomenon several weeks ago, she blamed demons. I offer a 3rd explanation. TikTok is secretly recording these women while they browse, take selfies, and vogue before recording. To avoid filling the whole phone with spy recordings, it overwrites the same sectors over and over. Sometimes the app freezes and stops writing new data on a user-recorded video, and the corrupted sandwich file is still playable. It's usually not playable, though, so most people never see the spy data.
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I’ve seen some shocking statistics on functional illiteracy many times, but I just couldn’t believe that most of the population struggles with reading instructions or understanding a weather forecast.
Like last month I was on a train station where there were changes in a train schedule and while I was checking this information on an information board, a very confused woman asked me for help, because she was unable to understand what was happening and I had to explain the changes in schedule for her. She looked pretty normal, and was very nice and polite. It was shocking to me, and it hit me that she just can’t parse a written information.
How do these people exist in a modern society? In my opinion this is a form of mental disability.
Also I just had a thought that this is the reason why pajeets and nafris are using voice messages in public transport exclusively.