Windy cityMar 12

The current state of the web assumes that the reader is an adversary to be trapped and monetized.

When a news website forces you through three dismissive actions just to read a headline, they are burning your cognitive budget before delivering any value. You are greeted by a cookie banner taking up the bottom 30% of your screen, a "Subscribe!" modal dead center, an autoplaying video pinned to the corner and a prompt begging to send you push notifications.

I wrote about the state of news websites. Would love to hear your thoughts✨🙏

https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit

#enshittification #darkpattern #web #technology #socialmedia #indieweb #ux #privacy

The 49MB Web Page

A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.

Show threadLog 🪵
@pheonix I use a script blocker. News sites are often the worst offenders when it comes to presenting a completely unusable document on first page load, and 30+ domains other than the one serving the base document that want to run scripts. This is especially grievous if the content is a video clip from a broadcast television station. You have to guess which panel of the adware-newsware quilt operates the content you wanted, and which are adware and trackers. Enshittified web.
Mar 16 at 1:42pmWeb
Show threadWindy cityMar 16
@log IKR. Such is the state of web these days..