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I just wanted to take a moment to enjoy how clean the web can be (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by DanForever@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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I happened to click a link that took me to the associated ~~twitter~~ X account for something I was interested in and was greeted by not one, not two, but four modern day web popups.

I know it's nothing new. I've got a couple of firefox plugins that are usually quite good at hiding this sort of nonsense, but I guess they failed me today (or, I shudder to think, there were even more that were blocked, and this is what got through)

What's the worst new/not-signed-in user experience you've encountered recently?

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[-] Hammocks4All@lemmy.ml 16 points 6 months ago

This is the digital equivalent of walking through an open air market and having salespeople harass and follow you trying to sell something

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[-] urheber@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 6 months ago

try opening fanwiki in a phone

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[-] eddy_bola@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

Hahaha I had the exact same reaction and made an almost identical screenshot of this eyecancer…

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 months ago

Why are you all on X/Twitter? It's utter trash, I just avoid the whole thing.

[-] eddy_bola@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

I’m not on Twitter, or any social platform, but sometimes a link leads met to a post or an account. Et voilà!

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[-] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 14 points 6 months ago

I set 2 different people up with revanced over the weekend. I thought I'd typed in the wrong URL because I'm on Firefox mobile and both of them are on Chrome mobile. Literally looks like an entirely different site. On Chrome it's got a big fancy logo at the top, ads....fucking....everywhere...
On Firefox(with various blockers and anti trackers etc etc) it's a plain white page with a bold title and small blurb then links to the various apks. Took me a minute to even figure out where the link for the manager was.....

[-] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 6 points 6 months ago

Might be better to install it through Obtanium by adding this link https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-manager

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[-] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 6 months ago

https://xcancel.com/HexOS_Official

[-] Clbull@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

Google and YouTube are pretty fucking bad without an ad-blocker installed. From someone who has worked in jobs where I may as well have called myself a 'Professional Googler' and where I do not have permissions to install an ad-blocker on my work computer, the amount of ads I get buried with really sours the experience.

Also, a lot of news sites (particularly anything owned by Reach PLC such as the Mirror) are now flipping the middle-finger at GDPR by forcing users to pay to reject tracking cookies. Here's a screengrab from the Daily Mirror website...

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[-] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Never thought I'd miss frames. Though really, I always wondered exactly why they got dogpiled into nonexistence. Formatting issues?

[-] xenoclast@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Security nightmare as well

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

I imagine coding frames so that they worked well on both desktop and mobile would be a major pain in the ass.

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[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 8 points 6 months ago

I just set all the twitter and meta domains to localhost in my hosts file; no accidental clicks that go through for me :)

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 8 points 6 months ago

I've become quite picky about what sites I visit because of this, and it's why I don't like opening links. I know you can block this crap, but it's seldom worth the effort.

[-] aaaaace 6 points 6 months ago

Tax all captured data @40 dollars per field per year. First name, 40 bucks, last name 40 bucks, etc.

[-] eronth@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

This is something I like to use ublock origin for. Like, blocking ads is nice, but I also love just clearing out clutter from websites.

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