Les OrchardWent to try to read a thing on "MIT Technology Review" and got intercepted by 3 different popup modals and a banner before I managed to scroll 1cm through the page. The title of the piece was "How to fix the internet" and I already closed the tab.
I really wish there were a service to deliver primal screams to the folks who direct the construction of these things on websites. Not the web developers, mind you, the directors.
Alan Langford 🇨🇦🧤🧊摏@lmorchard By "primal screams" I presume you mean "as a result of the electro-shocks".
Dan Hon@lmorchard this is why I started including archive.is links for everything in the newsletter: https://archive.ph/20231017121548/https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/17/1081194/how-to-fix-the-internet-online-discourse/
@danhon That site threw three captchas at me and then broke :/
Blake C. Stacey@lmorchard @danhon Yep, archive.is/.ph./today likes to get stuck in a GOTO 10 loop of captchas. It happened to me so frequently that I gave up on clicking any links to there.
Wilhelm Fitzpatrick@lmorchard this is the thing. Even sites I really actually want to read have become unreadable. Even in some cases sites I _pay for_ are trending toward unreadability.
Random Geek in limbo@lmorchard "How to fix the Internet" → close the tab
seems like part of the fix for our modern Internet right there
But honestly yeah. I'm getting shades of 2006 or so. You know, before pop-up blockers became basically universal?
Sabrina Web 
đź“Ž@lmorchard You make me feel a bit guilty for boosting that toot too
@sabrinaweb71 Eh, I also boosted it and then went back and read it after I got through the first batch of cookies set
Eli the Bearded@lmorchard Read it in lynx.
Andreas K@lmorchard Well, they have not yet managed to intercept the “close window event” unconditionally. Yet.
Pete Prodoehl 🍕@lmorchard The medium is the... oh, never mind.
Jamie Booth@lmorchard
Closing the tab is by far the best way to fix the Internet.
Closing the tab is by far the best way to fix the Internet.
Matt@lmorchard opened up a site to download something in a new tab, finished what I was doing and opened the new tab to be greeted by a full page survey asking me if I had found what I was looking to download. Dunno, it might be behind your survey, might not. It was also *mandatory* that I fill in my details *if* I wanted to be contacted about my feedback. I was not polite
Jon@lmorchard JavaScript was perhaps a mistake.
Rhialto@jjlupa @lmorchard you can leave out the "perhaps".
Sector9
katherine@lmorchard that website! I had a distinct moment recently of trying to read on that website and for some reason it was the last straw for me; I had to sit in silence for a moment for being so fed up.
@lmorchard do people use their own websites??
@lmorchard it shouldn't be that bad, compared to a ton of other sites out there. but looking at this kind of makes my blood boil
Janne Moren@lmorchard
Firefox Reader mode to the rescue.
Firefox Reader mode to the rescue.
Travis@lmorchard That’s usually when I engage “Reader mode” otherwise yeah, instant tab close. I guess the irony is lost on them.
Nicholas Stein@lmorchard I have ublock-origin + privacy badger installed on my Edge browser and got through the article with no annoyances.