[simias]

Oh man, tell me about it. I lurk on Reddit from time to time from my smartphone and the experience nowadays is terrible. I have like half a dozen elements disabled using u-block to make it somewhat bearable. From the pulsating button at the top of every page to the multiple dialogs taking turn to harass you into installing the app...

On top of that I've noticed that the website keeps getting slower and slower to load what's effectively a few KB of plain text comments.

The state of the web in 2019 is frankly shameful. Those are tactics that you should expect from shady websites, not some of the biggest players in the field. Everybody is trying to trick you into going against your best interests.

The GDPR did a good job at highlighting that for me, suddenly all the websites in the world deployed a wealth of ingenuity to develop new dark patterns to trick you into opting into the tracking, using ambiguous controls and confusingly worded instructions.

I hope this is only a phase and we'll move away from this toxic ad-driven business model sooner or later but honestly at this point I'm not holding my breath.

[gerbilly]

>The state of the web in 2019 is frankly shameful. Those are tactics that you should expect from shady websites, not some of the biggest players in the field.

Because of ad networks, every site is now a shady website.

[justtopost]

I don't bother there anymore. Either they fix it, or someone else will have the content. Not much OC but advertising now. Rampart.