Gotta admit I'm really hating this new generation of Web Pages

[Kamen_Kaiju]

Figure it out, Young'in!

 

[Jim]

Surfing the net?

What's surfing the net?

Doesn't the internet only consist of a few sports blogs, a few guitar fora, and cracked.com?

Jeez, I'm missing out on something.

 

[Username2]

Surfing the net?

What's surfing the net?

Doesn't the internet only consist of a few sports blogs, a few guitar fora, and cracked.com?

Jeez, I'm missing out on something.

Don't forget the porn sites, man.

 

[Jim]

Don't forget the porn sites, man.

Ctrl+shift+n...

 

[12watt]

They've dumbed down MailChimp for touch screens, it's like a Sesame Street version of what was there. There is no option to run the 'I have a mouse and keyboard version'. Grr!

 

[Kamen_Kaiju]

Surfing the net?

What's surfing the net?

Doesn't the internet only consist of a few sports blogs, a few guitar fora, and cracked.com?

Jeez, I'm missing out on something.

and Zerg.net

which is annoying as sh*t, but does have interesting/funny articles.

 

[twst1up]

adblock?

Noscript?

Surely there are tons of firefox extensions to help?

 

[Jim]

and Zerg.net

which is annoying as sh*t, but does have interesting/funny articles.

Has GREAT, entertaining articles. I just can't stand the popups and redirects and crap.

 

[Kamen_Kaiju]

adblock?

Noscript?

Surely there are tons of firefox extensions to help?

I have them, it's not the ads, it's the pages themselves.

.... I can't imagine how much more obnoxious the net would be without the blocks.

 

[Mad Scientist]

The annoyances Malikon describes sound like "Java Script Mouseovers" and "Mystery Meat Navigation", all described and made fun of much better than I ever could here:

Web Pages That Suck - learn good web design by looking at bad web design - Home Page

I can't STAND those sites that automatically play a fuggin' video either!

 

[Kamen_Kaiju]

well....I'm glad it's not just me.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_vhNWsgcsM]Anthrax Misery Loves Company - YouTube[/ame]

 

[jonas335]

The same type of people have been designing the latest Gibsons.

 

[Mindfrigg]

Yeah, it's all about hitting you with targeted ads and monitoring what you do.

I got a cool add on called Disconnect that blocks all the data requests,...it's frightening sometimes when you realize just how many people are trying to get your browsing info.

For example...

while reading a Huff Post article,...it blocked 86 requests..

Now what happens on MLP? A place that really does run on Ad dollars? How many blocks?

I've read articles that had over 150 blocks before.

That's per page,...that's just thousands and thousands of times people are trying to steal/spy/poke around? ...however you want to look at it, every single time you're online.

Maybe I am getting old, but in the late 90's the net was just flat out 'FUN.'

It didn't seem so monetized and squeezed down. And you didn't feel targeted all the time.

It just ...was.

People made pages and put 'em up. Some of 'em sucked. Some were really funny.

But it felt like a new frontier.

Now it feels like I'm always on a Corporate Server looking at Corporate Software.

...which still wouldn't totally suck if it didn't have a horrible design and layout with tiles and pop ups everywhere.

I have a theory. Nothing ruins something like 'success'.

 

[Mindfrigg]

They've dumbed down MailChimp for touch screens, it's like a Sesame Street version of what was there. There is no option to run the 'I have a mouse and keyboard version'. Grr!

Part of the grand scheme to funnel you into buying new technology.

 

[VictorB]

 

[6stringer]

surf? the net?

Is that still a thing?

Absolutely. I do that all the time when I'm not watching TV or browsing the web.

 

[mgenet]

I don't know WHY I like this, Rich, I just do.

 

[Mindfrigg]

A blue box with a question mark? I'm intrigued.

 

[punkbird]

I hate how google is always trying to finish what I'm trying to type...just let me tell you what I want! And yeah, the new google maps bloows.

Also youtube has become worthless. You can hardly load a whole video, and if you want to go back and watch something again it locks up and I have to reload the video from the beginning.

 

[Barcham]

I agree with you, Mal. But if there is anything to blame for this, it's the proliferation of high speed Internet access. It's allowing web sites to just cram everything they possibly can on a page. And they have revolving advertising that on some sites causes the page to reload which is what is always restarting embedded videos. Just try using the back button sometimes and you will have to click it a dozen times before your page actually does go back because you are just cycling through the ads.