I cannot understand how some people are living with this. It is unbearable

    • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
      13·
      1 year ago

      You forgot the endless popups in the 2000s, which led to every browser integrating a popup blocker since then (and which often fail to stop actual malicious popups, no less)

      • Zerush@lemmy.ml
        4·
        1 year ago

        Yes, in these years are a lot of pop ups, pop unders among other crap in some pages, but normally in most pages there was, apart of an ocassinal Banner not much else to justify an adblocker. But nowadays, between ads, clickbaits, cookie consent, adblocker detections and ant-adblocker, paywalls and other shit like these, you need a lot of extensions and scripts if you don’t want that the page fills your browser and HD with all kind of PUPs and unwanted scripts, apart of an ad/trackerblocker. It’s a cats and mouse game between companies which want to track and profile you with all kind of dirty tricks, and the user and devs continuos searching contrameasures to show them the middle finger.

    • Y|yukichigai@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      Almost, but needs a few tweaks:

      • Content should be border-to-border in the 2000 panel.

      • Needs to be 3 lines of content in 2010 and only two lines of content in 2018.

      • 2018 needs a slide-over autoplay video on the bottom-left of the content space.

  • Radioactive Radio@lemm.ee
    18·
    1 year ago

    My former co-worker was daily driving his browser without any extensions and didn’t see anything wrong with it. I was watching him work one day and he was literally fighting a battle against the unholy pop-ups just tryna download some free fonts. What could’ve been done in 2 clicks took him minutes to do trying to close all the ads and tabs kept opening, videos kept playing. It was painful just to watch.

    • ruplicant@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      1 year ago

      i got stuck on the second screen

      i’m not sure if what seems to be a poignant interactive demonstration of internet UX enshitification is shallow/incomplete or depends on javascript/trackers that my browser is blocking. it’s ironic either way

      • Alex@feddit.ro
        2·
        1 year ago

        it might have js, I’m not sure. It isn’t the true modern web experience without 12MB of JS on a blog post/article, though :)

    • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee
      5·
      1 year ago

      Oh god

      But seriously, my favorite are online stores for products, but you can’t buy their product because they have pop-up ads for other products that interfere with their websites you can’t actually view or buy their fucking product.

      It’s like, insane. And probably why Amazon still exists.

      At this point I just want the internet to go away

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

    I remember some video. It was a joke about IT remoting in to fix a computer. The icons on the desktop were shaped like a dick. Then it guy took a screenshot and was like I’m definitely sending this to HR as he sorted them alphabetically. Then the other dude was like “no put it back, infant find anything!” And the line that sticks with me, the IT guy says “there’s no sort by dick”.

    https://youtu.be/uRGljemfwUE

    • xenoclast@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 year ago

      So far. If YouTube wins the adblock fight it’s running. It means the end of adblockers.

      Because once they do it. Everyone will. We won’t be able “just go somewhere else”

      • BugFinder@lemmy.world
        9·
        1 year ago

        In a world where people would spin up new websites just to piss off a billionaire, I have faith in humanity to build taller ladders for any walls the greedy corporations build.

    • Squirrel@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      I always forget about my adblocker until I need to use a browser without one. It’s really pretty miserable.

      • Jamie@jamie.moe
        3·
        1 year ago

        I helped someone I know out with a thing on their computer and got blasted by ads because they didn’t use an ad blocker.

        Those two minutes on the Internet really had me questioning how anyone manages to use it raw without going insane.

        • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
          1·
          1 year ago

          Maybe if we tell them uBlock Origin is a condom for their browser, they’ll understand?

          What a sentence to type out

          • Jamie@jamie.moe
            1·
            1 year ago

            I see it that way. You don’t dive into some strange without protection, don’t let your computer do it with websites.

            • miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
              3·
              1 year ago

              It’s always difficult with digital matters, since there isn’t anything tangible and concrete to show.

              Like, there’s no shady person following them with a notebook and reporting back to their boss all day, but that is kinda what’s happening, just invisible to the user.

              My pihole is pretty good at showing family how many connections their apps make are completely unnecessary to their actual functions. That’s a good illustration to start with.

  • Hexbear2 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    In Firefox, on Linux, behind a VPN and firewall with ad blocker, I run 5 different privacy/ad blocking extensions. I keep hearing about adds, but not seeing them.

    Supposedly Youtube now is getting more agressive on this? I wouldn’t know. Haven’t seen a Youtube notice about it yet.

    But really, I dream of the day youtube is replaced by something else. Fracture Youtube into 1,000 pieces and scatter it into the wind.

    • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      It’s bound to happen. Louis Rossmans new app Grayjay is an interesting attempt at allowing users to step away from the YouTube walled garden

      • Kumatomic@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        7·
        1 year ago

        All the better to track you with so you have no choice but to agree and agree to their arbitration clauses if you want to use their and their competitors’ products with no alternative to avoid it. Sometimes you can’t even use the mobile site when so many services and businesses have flat out broken their mobile sites just to force the app. I don’t like DuckDuckGo’s browser but I use it to block trackers in the background.

        • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pubEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          This is correct. I use ddg for the same reason, and the “Desktop site” option for those little shits that broke their mobile site to force the app. If that option doesn’t work, I leave the site.

          • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee
            2·
            1 year ago

            I found that Firefox mobile with adblocker solves 100% of my advlock issues, and usually fixes format and display issues with websites. Half the websites I view on chrome mobile don’t even fit on my screen anymore!

            • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pubEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              Last time I tried ff mobile, it was sluggish, and had no extensions. I’m guessing they fixed those issues? I like ddg mobile browser well enough, but I’d love to use ff on my mobile, too. And, yes, I did notice those formatting issues. I thought it was just bad design, but it’s the chrome engine? Interesting. Not at all surprising, though, but interesting.

    • flerp@lemm.ee
      4·
      1 year ago

      Ah this brings back the memories of the race to close pop-ups as you can hear your parents coming home. For every one you close, three pop up to take it’s place. You can hear the key in the lock. Sweat pouring down your face you finally do it, you hit the last X and nothing new pops up. You have defeated the pop-ups… this time.

    • Zerush@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yes, typical screens from these years, from a user who, as a newbie in the Internet, clicked on these beautiful banners and animations that were on certain pages with nice freeware stuff, screensavers, games, funny Powerpoints, etc… Nowadays these things do not appear and you can only notice that the PC goes every time slower and you know that you belong to the big family of the botnet community.

  • GodIsNull@feddit.de
    81·
    1 year ago

    Today? It always has been like that. I remember the nineties popup ad banner days. Not much has changed.

    • chakan2@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      Which is fucking hilariously sad to me…Google became Google because it got rid of all those things. It was just a search box and it did search well.

      Now that it has a monopoly and no competition, it’s bringing back all the ads. Fuck your results, here’s a page of sponsored links.

      In a couple of decades Firefox will shit the same bed and the cycle of capitalism will continue.

    • gohixo9650@discuss.tchncs.deOP
      6·
      1 year ago

      in the 90s there was no technology to have an overlay of an ad following you while you scroll and when you close it a new one appears more aggressively. Or to let you start reading an article and then suddenly appear in your face not allowing you to continue. Yes, there was the worse situation that they would open a whole new window, but browsers started restricting it quite early

      • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee
        1·
        1 year ago

        Well at least in the early 2000s we certainly had the cascading cavalcade of pop-up windows that you couldn’t get rid of, I do remember that. Maybe not in the '90s though because it probably would have caused your computer to meltdown. Heh

  • Kokesh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Bonzy Buddy… Anyone? I found it so often at customer computers. When they saw me trying to uninstall it, they got quite angry, because they REALLY LIKED that funny monkey.

  • CaptKoala@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I just dual booted my desktop with Linux Mint the other day, for funsies I tried navigating the net (before adding UBO) and it was a shitshow.

    0/10 do not recommend.

  • AutomaticJack@beehaw.org
    5·
    1 year ago

    I once had a user whose PC would freeze every time they tried to see their desktop. Like, you minimise something full screen and the PC would freeze for a few minutes and crawl while the desktop was in view.

    Turns out they had more than 4,000 items on their desktop.

    That day I learned where Windows puts icons that don’t fit on the desktop (it stacks them all on the first icon’s place, lol). And this wasn’t even the problem they called about! They were just grumpily blaming Microsoft and working around it for years.

    I guess my point is computer illiterate/belligerent people will find a way around the problems they cause and just blame something/someone else.

  • take_five_seconds [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    my partner’s mouse’s scroll wheel has been broken for years. every time i’ve tried to get them a new mouse they stop using it after about 2 days and go back to the busted one. why? “idk it was too heavy/didn’t fit their small hands/plastic felt weird” etc. deadass i’ve gone through about 6 or 7. idk what the point of this rambling post is other than people are adaptable to shitty conditions and most straight up don’t care that their hardware/software is shitty.