Community Forums => NWR Forums Discord => Topic started by: ShyGuy on May 08, 2019, 09:44:45 AM
Title: I grow to hate the web
Post by: ShyGuy on May 08, 2019, 09:44:45 AM
The world wide web sucks in 2019, I'm gonna make a post about it. stay tuned!
Title: Re: I grow to hate the web
Post by: Khushrenada on May 08, 2019, 12:58:26 PM
I'll be making a reaction video to ShyGuy's comment when he releases it. Don't forget to like this comment and subscribe to my channel for future posts and videos like this one.
Title: Re: I grow to hate the web
Post by: nickmitch on May 08, 2019, 03:42:10 PM
I've already written an op-ed in response to Khushrenda's reaction video, among others, and why he and others like him miss the point. It'll go live once his video posts.
Title: Re: I grow to hate the web
Post by: Stratos on May 08, 2019, 04:42:17 PM
I'm leading a break-off community of former Shyguy, Khush, and Nickmitch followers to provide a safe space for conversation in a non-toxic environment about the web, but all we ever post are memes about current web events that make light of serious issues and refer to 2008 as the "good old days" even though everyone hated the web then too.
Title: Re: I grow to hate the web
Post by: pokepal148 on May 08, 2019, 07:18:37 PM
This whole thing is just a bunch of blatant SJW propaganda anyways.
Title: Re: I grow to hate the web
Post by: ShyGuy on May 08, 2019, 10:58:37 PM
YOU GUYS RUIN EVERYTHING!
(runs away crying)
Title: Re: I grow to hate the web
Post by: Mop it up on May 09, 2019, 12:53:23 PM
I'll create memes about this, help me spread them around.
Title: Re: I grow to hate the web
Post by: Phil on May 09, 2019, 02:01:06 PM
Go easy on the imgs, I still have dial-up.
Title: Re: I grow to hate the web
Post by: ShyGuy on May 09, 2019, 11:23:50 PM
I'm glad Phil is back!
Title: Re: I grow to hate the web
Post by: Phil on May 11, 2019, 05:48:50 PM
Modern WWW is more like a string than a web. I miss the geocities type sites.
Sir, have you heard the good news of NeoCities? https://neocities.org/browse
Title: Re: I grow to hate the web
Post by: ShyGuy on May 27, 2019, 04:03:07 PM
Okay, HERE'S HOW IT IS TO VISIT A WEBSITE IN TWENTY NINTETEEN!
You get a link to some article or something from your email, from social media, from your news feed, from the forums.
The first stop, they detect your adblocker. Time to greenlight just this one page! (https://i.imgur.com/fuQIq8I.jpg)
Second Stop they want to show you notifications. NOPE! (https://i.imgur.com/V2kzJYp.jpg)
Third stop, they gotta tell you about them cookies. NWR has a nice small notification, but some websites take up half the page. What was interesting, is I went to some UK tabloid for an article (I think it was Express.co.uk) and they had a cookies pop up that listed the twelve sites to who they were selling information. (https://i.imgur.com/SL5isdv.jpg)
Fourth stop, if they're really a turd, is you get the autoplay videos! Everybody loves autoplay videos, especially if they are embedded at the bottom of the page and you have to scroll all the way down to mute them. (https://i.imgur.com/c7jcSOt.png)
Fifth, you get the privilege of having the option to sign up for a newsletter! Let's spread this crap to you inbox! (https://i.imgur.com/7EBn1rW.jpg)
Maybe now, you can get the information that you came for. But sometimes, once you start to click away, they will give you a parting shot! (https://i.imgur.com/lCNigIV.jpg)
And that's why the Internet should have stayed a hobby for nerds!
Title: Re: I grow to hate the web
Post by: stevey on May 27, 2019, 06:48:32 PM
And that's why the Internet should have stayed a hobby for nerds!
Have you forgotten those semi-transparent flash overlays that prevented you from clicking on sites. Planentgamecube had a dinosaur one that blocked the links to all the juicy E3 news. Apparently they died; good riddance.
Title: Re: I grow to hate the web
Post by: nickmitch on May 27, 2019, 10:11:40 PM
The only thing missing is a publication you've never heard of saying you have 3 free articles left before you run out, but you can get 3 months for just $1, cancel anytime.
Title: Re: I grow to hate the web
Post by: Stratos on May 28, 2019, 10:51:52 PM
Don't forget the insistence that you let them access your location data (for a blog?) and the offer to "install" a shortcut on your phone as if an obscure news site deserved to appear as an app on your screen.
If you are sneaky, there are ways around it. You can inspect the elements via developer tools in Chrome and delete some of the parts blocking the screen to read an article if you know what you are doing and they didn't make the site very well. But typically I am lazy and will just tell google (when browsing news via google now) to never show articles from them again and move on with life. Oh, and I switched to Brave Browser, as it blocks most everything by default.
Title: Re: I grow to hate the web
Post by: RABicle on May 31, 2019, 12:06:13 AM
The only thing missing is a publication you've never heard of saying you have 3 free articles left before you run out, but you can get 3 months for just $1, cancel anytime.
This is honestly, one of the less egregious monetisation strategy. It's just a dollar. What else were you going to spend it on? refined sugar?
But yeah using the web fucking sucks these days. I think I'm going back to my car radio for news now.
Title: Re: I grow to hate the web
Post by: pokepal148 on May 31, 2019, 02:10:48 AM
I've had some video sites set up so when you click the "skip ad" button on the video it just opens up a new window with some ad deal going on.
Title: Re: I grow to hate the web
Post by: RABicle on June 01, 2019, 03:31:33 AM
What sort of video sites would do that? 🤔
Title: Re: I grow to hate the web
Post by: nickmitch on June 01, 2019, 02:12:32 PM
The only thing missing is a publication you've never heard of saying you have 3 free articles left before you run out, but you can get 3 months for just $1, cancel anytime.
This is honestly, one of the less egregious monetisation strategy. It's just a dollar. What else were you going to spend it on? refined sugar?
But yeah using the web fucking sucks these days. I think I'm going back to my car radio for news now.
Sure, the dollar is a low introductory price, but it always goes up after the trial to $7-10/month. My biggest issue is when it's not a site I've never heard of and can't say I plan on coming back to in the 3 months.
I'd honestly rather they just charge me like 15 cents to read the one article and I can just go about my day.
Title: Re: I grow to hate the web
Post by: pokepal148 on June 02, 2019, 01:40:23 AM
Also re-captcha is just obnoxious. Fucking hell.
Title: Re: I grow to hate the web
Post by: RABicle on June 02, 2019, 04:55:32 AM
The only thing missing is a publication you've never heard of saying you have 3 free articles left before you run out, but you can get 3 months for just $1, cancel anytime.
This is honestly, one of the less egregious monetisation strategy. It's just a dollar. What else were you going to spend it on? refined sugar?
But yeah using the web fucking sucks these days. I think I'm going back to my car radio for news now.
Sure, the dollar is a low introductory price, but it always goes up after the trial to $7-10/month. My biggest issue is when it's not a site I've never heard of and can't say I plan on coming back to in the 3 months.
I'd honestly rather they just charge me like 15 cents to read the one article and I can just go about my day.
Oh... yeah sorry I imagined that they were offering that last option. More websites need microtransactions instead of subscriptions.
Title: Re: I grow to hate the web
Post by: nickmitch on June 02, 2019, 12:56:04 PM
Especially with how people browse the web. I don't really go looking for articles to read, I get them from Twitter and the Digg newsletter almost entirely. So I really have no need for a singular subscription.
