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 threadLostSettler

@pheonix those aren't news sites and that's not news. The first newspapers were fliers in coffee shops where financial traders would take trades. News is literally "information that helps you make better financial decisions". That is all.

What you describe is a system that stops you seeing anything: in order to what? Profit from you. The less you see, the better - on that site.

Philosophically, news as entertainment is similar - commodifies your attention. You are the product. Fuck that.

Mar 16 at 10:04pmWeb