Modern Web Woes - I'm mad at the internet

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2 I've had the misfortune of dealing with recently:
1) When an online tool is available that waits till after you submitted information to inform you that it won't do anything unless you sign up.
2) When you can't contact any form of customer service to report a problem unless you sign up and give them a credit card number. FedEx is a perfect example. Did someone ship something to you and it went to the wrong house? Well, FedEx doesn't want to hear about it unless you sign up to their site and give them money. What's worse is that it was a recent change and their help articles still imply that you can inform them about this without an account.
 
TheHarbinger said:
IMDB is now forcing a log-in to view user reviews on the site. This is becoming more and more common on popular websites. Where you must register an account to view anything useful. And often register with a phone and approve email service for 2FA and other nonsense so they can sell your data.
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do what i did with the comic website i use to read comics and make an account with a throwaway email, but you write that shit down somewhere so you arent locked out like an idiot when you lose immediate access
 
TheHarbinger said:
IMDB is now forcing a log-in to view user reviews on the site. This is becoming more and more common on popular websites. Where you must register an account to view anything useful. And often register with a phone and approve email service for 2FA and other nonsense so they can sell your data
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I just use IMDB to find out who’s in a movie or an actor/actresses history. But they’re owned by IMDB so I am not surprised that the site is inshitifiying itself.

DeadwastePrime said:
do what i did with the comic website i use to read comics and make an account with a throwaway email, but you write that shit down somewhere so you arent locked out like an idiot when you lose immediate access
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Get one of those 10 minute email type accounts(if you can) and sign up there so the data they have is practically useless.

Off topic, would love to create a temp email service that the domain name talks shit on tech giants and their owners.
 
CEO of Autism said:
What will it take for people to learn how to use KeePassXC and make online backup copies (don't worry it's giga-encrypted)? You'll never be locked out of sites again as long as you're diligent.
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SchizoDaemon said:
KeePassXC is just amazing. You can use it for much more than passwords as well.
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SchizoDaemon said:
SSH Agent Authentication
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I use Syncthing to keep my phone, laptop, and desktop on the same KeepassXC database. I have saved cards, passwords, totp, and passkeys.
 
Dante Alighieri said:
I use Syncthing to keep my phone, laptop, and desktop on the same KeepassXC database. I have saved cards, passwords, totp, and passkeys.
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I am using Dropbox. I should use something like synthing, but I had issues running it on my NAS at the time. Might try again at some point.
 
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Evan Kor said:
2) When you can't contact any form of customer service to report a problem unless you sign up and give them a credit card number. FedEx is a perfect example. Did someone ship something to you and it went to the wrong house? Well, FedEx
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Imagine holiday season. Imagine 2x50lbs packages. Imagine posting a sign on the front door saying someone IS at the house and to just ring the damn bell..... and what do those mouth breathers do? Miss delivery 3 days in a row, two of which "no one was available" and the required proof pic taken clearly from the damn delivery truck.....

Like, if you fucks are having fun loading and unloading 100lbs for 3 days in a row, be my guests, but I will put a dozen of curses on you waiting for my shit and knowing it's in a <3 mile limbo from my goddamn place for days.....
 
Man remember when you could navigate a web in 3 clicks?

Now it's like:
* Go to website
* Security verification (30 seconds)
* Login
* Do captcha (30 seconds) 60 seconds... 90 seconds?
* Ok it fucked up. Reload page.
* Captcha click the cars?
* Ooop you clicked wrong! Redo it again!
* Another 30 second wait...
* We're onto main page.
 
Mad as a Swan said:
Man remember when you could navigate a web in 3 clicks?

Now it's like:
* Go to website
* Security verification (30 seconds)
* Login
* Do captcha (30 seconds) 60 seconds... 90 seconds?
* Ok it fucked up. Reload page.
* Captcha click the cars?
* Ooop you clicked wrong! Redo it again!
* Another 30 second wait...
* We're onto main page.
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The double whammy of Cloudflare and a captcha is absolutely disgusting. Especially since they break for unknowable reasons completely out of your control.
 
Dante Alighieri said:
The double whammy of Cloudflare and a captcha is absolutely disgusting. Especially since they break for unknowable reasons completely out of your control.
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I had the infinite cloudflare loop (I think I need to look at my PiHole setup) and then got my IP banned from the site I wanted to visit for "suspicious activity".
 
You used to be able to research products before you bought them thanks to a million people who wanted write or record something for no other reason than to share. If you read/watched enough of their reviews, you got a real sense of the strengths and weaknesses of something.

I was recently upgrading my AV receiver so I hopped online to read and watch all of the reviews possible on the one I was eyeing. What did I find?
  • A tidal wave of AI generated 2 to 3 minute videos that simply regurgitated the same information about the features. No analysis of quality.
  • A handful of videos by jeets, noted experts and connoisseurs of home audio and video. And also regurgitating information.
  • One or two guys who owned $10K to $30K speakers and looked dismissively down on anything a normal person might be considering for purchase.
I miss the old days.
 
probably the wrong thread but are you guys seeing this shit?


What if I don't want to be throwing romans at my bin to open it, or have my fucking garbage analysed by a smart app that you are forced to install? And you just know this shit is connected to the internet 24/7. Why can't we just buy a bin or is that simply not allowed in 2026?
 
Pixiv fucked up their search settings a couple days ago, you used to be able to click to choose R-18, manga or ugoira in one click but now? there is a big ass menu that you have to navigate and click OK before you can search on any setting but full newest.

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Mad as a Swan said:
Man remember when you could navigate a web in 3 clicks?

Now it's like:
* Go to website
* Security verification (30 seconds)
* Login
* Do captcha (30 seconds) 60 seconds... 90 seconds?
* Ok it fucked up. Reload page.
* Captcha click the cars?
* Ooop you clicked wrong! Redo it again!
* Another 30 second wait...
* We're onto main page.
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Cloudflare monopolization is one of the reasons that the Internet is fucked alongside AI. To say nothing that others (such as whatever Kiwifarms is using) is sometimes just as bad.

Also if you are in mobile it almost has to refresh routinely every 5 seconds.

Fig Kommandant said:
I tried DuckDuckGo recently and even though they don't shove their AI answer, their SEO is polluted beyond usability by AI-written articles. It really is awful how search algos have become since LLMs went public.
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It's like there is a systematic effort to fuck everything up to the point where life itself is not feasible and rebuilding society is completely impossible after globalhomo crumbled it once and for all beyond repair.

At this point I'm looking at everything that everyone knows by 2070 is some sort of AI generated reality ran over by feral Islamic and Indian thugs and the UN are worshiped as Gods like Stalin and Mao.
 
Never Scored said:
So many websites run so much better with javascript turned off, especially if it's a news site or something where you just want to read articles.
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A lot of browsers have a reader mode now.

There was recommendations back in the 2010s for unobtrusive JavaScript. This is where you progressively enhance the experience with JavaScript, but the site should work fine without it. Instead the massive JS frameworks won, because thinking about how to manage click handlers is "hard". TBF a lot of sites at the time were poorly optimised jQuery slop, because a lot of developers didn't ever read the jQuery docs.

The whole page being built with JS should be for very dynamic things that are being updated in realtime, or things that are actual applications like Google Docs.
 
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The way I see it the situation at the Internet is essentially the virtual counterpart to the Aral Sea ecosystem collapse/Anthrax Island catastrophe.

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For context the Soviets didn't just drain the lake for cotton, they also turned the water into waste water with all sorts of poisons in the process, covered it with anthrax and single-handedly instigated a mass extinction event. Granted the Soviets and the United Nations are very loosely related and their take on nature is the exact opposite, but they are still elites of two sides of the same coin.

The Internet has lost approximately 90% of its content following the Obama-ICANN sellout or has made them virtually inaccessible through search algorithm manipulation and LLMs.

And unlike the Aral Sea collapse, a full-blown Internet and IT business collapse in the hands of Wokies, Jeets, AI and Real ID Internet/OS will affect everyone globally and render them nowhere to go, nowhere to hide. Perhaps 30 years later following the complete collapse of the Internet's ecosystem, it will be ingrained into people's knowledge that America and Europe is always ruled over by Arabic Caliphates, the United Nations are heroes and saints and the Japanese always lived in Iraq.
 
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