So much of the web became a hot mess in the past 20 years or so. Sure, some sites had popups and tried to force you to watch some Flash intro and so on, but we need so much compute just to read text on a screen due to all the shit being injected into the mix, and all for ads, mostly. What the fuck do I even need Javascript for (as a user) to read news? There is no real legit need for JS bullshit to be running in such a scenario, at least from the reader’s perspective.
A great example of enshittification. Browsing the web without a defensive posture (using something like FF + blackhole + VPN + ublock origin + Noscript, etc.) becomes so infuriating.
I had to laugh when the same people that brought us enshittification constantly try to mock and deride “old” tech like RSS so that the clueless will drift away from such things, if they even knew about it at all.
I just need to render text and pictures to read news sites. Maybe follow a link to a video. Why do I need a great big ball of JS scripts running on my machine to accomplish that?
So much of the web became a hot mess in the past 20 years or so. Sure, some sites had popups and tried to force you to watch some Flash intro and so on, but we need so much compute just to read text on a screen due to all the shit being injected into the mix, and all for ads, mostly. What the fuck do I even need Javascript for (as a user) to read news? There is no real legit need for JS bullshit to be running in such a scenario, at least from the reader’s perspective.
A great example of enshittification. Browsing the web without a defensive posture (using something like FF + blackhole + VPN + ublock origin + Noscript, etc.) becomes so infuriating.
I had to laugh when the same people that brought us enshittification constantly try to mock and deride “old” tech like RSS so that the clueless will drift away from such things, if they even knew about it at all.
I just need to render text and pictures to read news sites. Maybe follow a link to a video. Why do I need a great big ball of JS scripts running on my machine to accomplish that?