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Theres a webpage someone made thats like a visual example of this but I forgot what it's called (maybe "I look at a webpage in 20XX" ) Anyone know it ?
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UX my ass. These “improvements” only hinder the user.
I suppose they never specified it was supposed to be a good user experience?
Our target audience is people with cognitive disabilities who still have access to a credit card.
I'll enshrine this post it encapsulates something that I always struggled to put into words.
And, the sites end up eating battery.
And, the sites end up eating battery.
Yeah, but they would have done that in 2005 too, if you were using them on a device with a battery.
Not in the same measure.
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Use Librewolf + Ublock origin with cookie popups filter turned on and medium mode on when needed.
Yeah, Librewolf is kinda the best web browser. I still need to use Firefox for some things that just have to be invasive, like I think my bank needs the browser to be a little less locked down, but man I love just browsing the web and only seeing what I want to see.
Ublock origin is the only way to fly these days. I've walked a few family members through using the Element Zapper and explained how the plugin identifies which domain is loading the content and why websites do that now. They've all taken to it pretty well.
Having a default backup browser for sites that give too much grief when they can't get all of their spyware to work correctly definitely keeps me sane and made adoption less stressful for the uninitiated. I give myself three or four tries to make a shitty site work before either abandoning the site and trying an alternative or, if it's important and necessary, loading it raw in the backup browser.
+1 for LibreWolf too. Dope project.
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Missed the part where
Shipping is 6.95 Close tab Sigh, open amazon
I like that I'm financially comfortable enough to pay for shipping and not give Bezos a cent.
Amazon offering free shipping is a large part of why the parcel industry became a hellhole of semi-illegal subcontractors even here in Germany where labour laws exist.
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It used to be that the ads, viruses and tracking were on the web pages, but now we are so blessed that they are built into our browsers and operating systems! Talk about optimization!
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Was the cookies popup really 3 years ago already?
They've been around for over half a decade.
Imagine having to navigate that site to buy a new monitor, without a monitor.
it is bad enough on some websites to make me wish I could just use a mail catalog thing