Modern Web Woes - I'm mad at the internet

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"Fandom" recently implemented some bullshit change that makes pages look like the CSS sheet or whatever is broken. Or at least that icon to stretch out a page does not work.

That site is becoming ever more unusable as time goes on, if you have a slightly out-of-date or not "Google Chrome" browser.
 
The ATF Disliked That said:
Firefox mobile app... I can no longer fix the tabs anymore to be the old layout... I can only asume that some troon working on the project fucked it all up again.
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I wish they would stop fucking with it, it was fine before and didn't need all these design changes. I miss the drop down menu.
 
cactus said:
I wish they would stop fucking with it, it was fine before and didn't need all these design changes. I miss the drop down menu.
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The fact that the button to add a new tab is now on the opposite corner of the screen than my dominant hand (right) pisses me the fuck off. I could navigate anything on Firefox with one hand. Now I have to bring up my left hand to the screen for no fucking reason. I switched to Brave and unfortunately they're the same with the tab layout, but I've been meaning to switch to Brave anyways.

Is there a way to switch Brave to the old Firefox tab layout? Tor Browser still has it, but I'm not using Tor for normie shit.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
"Fandom" recently implemented some bullshit change that makes pages look like the CSS sheet or whatever is broken. Or at least that icon to stretch out a page does not work.

That site is becoming ever more unusable as time goes on, if you have a slightly out-of-date or not "Google Chrome" browser.
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Just use the Indie Wiki Buddy to redirect automatically to a cleaned up frontend version of the page.
 
The ATF Disliked That said:
The fact that the button to add a new tab is now on the opposite corner of the screen than my dominant hand (right) pisses me the fuck off. I could navigate anything on Firefox with one hand. Now I have to bring up my left hand to the screen for no fucking reason. I switched to Brave and unfortunately they're the same with the tab layout, but I've been meaning to switch to Brave anyways.

Is there a way to switch Brave to the old Firefox tab layout? Tor Browser still has it, but I'm not using Tor for normie shit.
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It's more in the middle for me and says New Tab, as if the button with just the giant + wasn't enough of a clue that's the new tab button. The drop down menu also had an option to open a new tab (I would always accidentally hit the three dots instead of the view tabs button) that was convenient.
 
I tried making an account on a website yesterday. It wanted an email and I didn't want to use any of my pre-existing emails, so I went to make a new email. Every website that I could think of asked for a phone number at the last stage, and I didn't want to go through the rigamarole of getting a code and typing it in. Eventually, I found one that didn't - but the website I was trying to sign up for wouldn't let me use it because it was deemed a "throwaway" email service. I feel that all of this could be avoided if they just cut the fucking cables to Pajeetistan and Chinkland. I gave up and went back to playing HOI4. It's all very tiresome.
 
The ATF Disliked That said:
Firefox mobile app... I can no longer fix the tabs anymore to be the old layout... I can only asume that some troon working on the project fucked it all up again.
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Every update they change the UI of Firefox mobile and desktop. They changed the search layout recently without user input. And in order to change it back you need to dig through about:config and know the exact setting by its code name which average users will never figure out.
 
Fucking Apple ruined everything by making net access retard-easy and making it all shiny for toom temp IQ mouth breathers who immediately flocked to the new way to share their collective idiocy. Smartphone era ended. Socials started becoming more of a norm and everything went straight to complete shit.
 
Since we were posting about wikis a little bit. There is https://flutopedia.com/contents.htm you might find interesting.

Also I was looking at Wikipedia and I saw this:

Knowing what trash Wikipedia is, I am filled with rage at the sight of this autistic puzzle piece piece of shit. I hope the artist's kids died of cancer and then they die too. Good riddance. This is my joy.
 
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stares at error messages said:
I've said this before. All the Metro UI designs are part of an psychological engineering effort to make people forget real physical objects used to do what computers and smart phones do. You used to have a separate calculator appliance, not just a smart phone app. If the phone app doesn't try to have faux depth on the buttons, then you not being subliminally prompted to think, "this is a real button like on a physical device." They want everything that the computer and smart phone does to be the only embodiment of that ability. The companies and engineers pushing this want you to believe that there was never a physical device that ever did that and that only a smart phone can and ever did have that ability. Young people being given smart phone first instead of physical calculators will never have the frame of reference that a physical device separate from the phone ever existed. When they want to use a calculator their first thought will be, "I need to get my phone out to use the calculator." The product of this psychological engineering effort is to make people more dependent on their phones into the future and shift the public away from the concept of having separate appliances for different tasks. In the future people will be more attached to their phones because it will be unthinkable that you could use any other appliance for any task completed with a phone.
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Skeuomorphism died off because it did not adapt well to new environments. While it may look good on your 13 inch laptop or 26 inch monitor, it will look aweful on everything else. In my opinion, the reason that Microsoft adopted Metro UI is because they were developing hardware for a bunch of new devices, ones that skeuomorphism wouldn't look good on, such as the Microsoft Band, Windows Phones (old versions of android that uses skeuomorphism are clunky, disharmonious, and slow in comparison to windows phones), and the Hololens.
Also, minimalism was gaining popularity long before Metro UI and Windows 8. Ever heard of Macromedia Flash? I would argue that Flash is ground zero for minimalism within technology because it was designed to work with vector graphics, and vector graphics are more suited for minimalism than skeuomorphism.
 
>be me
>search for how to block Google AI "answers" in Firefox
>first result is a YT vid
>thick Indian accent
>the solution is just to download yet another extension

Guess I gotta stick with putting "-noai" in every single search now (and which has already failed once).
 
ToroidalBoat said:
>be me
>search for how to block Google AI "answers" in Firefox
>first result is a YT vid
>thick Indian accent
>the solution is just to download yet another extension

Guess I gotta stick with putting "-noai" in every single search now (and which has already failed once).
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The solution is in the thread:

Civillian 18

Post in thread 'Modern Web Woes'

You can also change your Google search parameter to
Code: 
https://www.google.com/search?udm=14&q=%s
which basically just defaults you to the 'Web' tab of Google results, as opposed to the 'All' tab that will include AI slop.
Some explanation.
Reactions:Informative x 2 Like x 5 Agree x 1 Thunk-Provoking x 1

Google's "web" tab is what used to be the default search. The results are somewhat better and there's no AI shit. At least no google AI shit.
 
ToroidalBoat said:
"Fandom" recently implemented some bullshit change that makes pages look like the CSS sheet or whatever is broken. Or at least that icon to stretch out a page does not work.

That site is becoming ever more unusable as time goes on, if you have a slightly out-of-date or not "Google Chrome" browser.
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i reccommend using this plugin.
https://getindie.wiki/
it blocks and redirects fandom links to alternative wiki sources, or at least puts a strikethrough fandom links so you dont accidentally click on it.
 
Zeftax said:
Can't you create a filter for it in ublock?
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Google changes its A.I. results script every couple of minutes now to bypass every ublock filter. And they continually rotate how they return their A.I. generated results to make things more obnoxious for those trying to block them. But even then their search engine is crippled compared to the early 2000s version. We're probably under a decade away from Google Search being disabled on desktop and reduced to a phone app or A.I. companion.
 
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