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 threadDr Andrew A. Adams #FBPE 🔶Mar 12
@pheonix @pluralistic
Auto reader view for specific sites.
There's a plugin I would install.
Show threadMark Whybird

@a_cubed @pheonix @pluralistic There’s a built-in setting for that in Safari.

You can even just automatically have it on for any site that supports it.

Mar 19 at 11:31amWeb