2025. you go to a website. you see all the elements on the page pop-in, loading one by one. it's like the 90s again. your internet connection might be hundreds of megabits per second. the web designer is using a 4k video file as a looping background, and that somehow loads quickly compared to all the actual useful elements on the page. three seconds, five seconds, ten seconds. each checkbox and table has to initialize its own software stack of UI abstraction libraries and surveillance middleware
@jk followed by a modal overlay for cookie “approval” approximately 500ms after you have started navigating the content…🤪
@clanger9 @jk and then a bottom banner ad. And a top banner ad. And a popup ad. And each one has a tiny X button (if you're lucky) that only appears after 5 sec and needs a finger the size of a qtip to press it

@wilbr @clanger9 @jk

The tiny X comes from a very special font that you need to feed Adobe cookies for.