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by Tommy430 857 days ago
> I've seen it evolve from java applets and flash to something better.

With the advances in technology I wish it had. However, we now have Material Design, oversized UIs, autoplaying videos when you are immediately on the site, anti-adblockers, "Please Subscribe" crap, the desktop being an afterthought (hamburger menus), etc.
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strict9 857 days ago
I don't like those things either.

But a counter argument is that uBlock origin, Pi-hole, and Reader mode in Firefox go a long way to blocking those things and creating a nice reading experience.

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Tommy430 857 days ago
> But a counter argument is that uBlock origin, Pi-hole, and Reader mode in Firefox go a long way to blocking those things and creating a nice reading experience.

Yeah, true. What I mean is that I miss when the web sites were still lighter pretty much and the desktop was still one of the main platforms (heck, one of the reasons of increased PC sales from the late 90s-early 00s was internet access). An example for me is that I had a better time viewing YouTube on a old computer and old OSes on VMs than YouTube today since back then, the site was still light enough and easy to use. Heck, back then you could even run it on Windows 98 and 2000.

Apologies I had to reply again. Been a while I actually used this so I forgot that there was an edit button.

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JohnFen 857 days ago
That's not really a counterargument. Having to do those things sucks in and of themselves. They just mitigate some of the other suckage.
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Tommy430 857 days ago
This pretty much, not to mention that some sites break just by disabling JavaScript even though frontends for popular social media sites like Twitter (Nitter) and YouTube (YT2009, Invidious) prove that you don't need JavaScript or at least make the entire site rely on it just to view content.
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rchaud 857 days ago
Ublock Origin has no effect on email modals or cookie popups. Those have to be manually zapped.
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jauntywundrkind 857 days ago
Consent-o-matic handles cookie popups. Some sites do have login-walls, enforced or no. Someone ought make another extension!

https://github.com/cavi-au/Consent-O-Matic

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hoppyhoppy2 857 days ago
UBlock Origin includes (but doesn't enable by default) several "Annoyances" filter lists that zap many cookie banners.
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