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How did we let the Web get to this point. All I wanted to do was read this blog post.
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@aaronpk I have to REALLY want to read a post to stop me backing out and finding something else to read when I see that.
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@aaronpk the problem was that you WANTED something and they found a way to capitalize off of it with most people.
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@aaronpk Seems relevant to link to Tom Scott: https://invidious.moomoo.me/watch?v=OFRjZtYs3wY (YouTube via Invidious)
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@aaronpk yeah, you should have prevented this
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My personal favourite is not being able to scroll down to tap a button that's off screen till the page has fully loaded because it's a modal... =[
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This is what happens when investors and product owners veto creators beliefs. No creator would willingly do this, it all comes down to data collection or making money.
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Just canceled my Medium subscription.
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god punishing us
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If a game designer did this they'd be given the "are you kidding me?" look so hard...
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Seems the cookie banner was left out, could of been worse ๐
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Reader mode on mobile Safari is a great way to avoid all this rubbish.
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@aaronpk I can answer that, just sign up to my free site, allow cookies, allow all the trackers, and kindly install my app on each of your devices and those of your friends and family.
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@aaronpk we got dragged to this point by smart and ruthless operators claiming chess pieces one after the other while the masses are catatonic and the astute resistance basks in ideological purity.
but its not check-mate yet 8-)
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@aaronpk Medium.com went stupid a few weeks ago and declared "no more anon story reading". Any author that doesn't jump ship to a better platform -- too bad, I'm not reading your essay on Medium.
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this is one of many reasons we need #indieweb
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I saw that too, so I stopped using @Medium altogether.
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@aaronpk I avoid Medium at all costs. Not even readability mode, or Pocket can fix it sometimes. ๐
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off-tangent. Google auto-prompting users to login to websites that use google login is single handedly one of the reasons I'll never for the life of me be a user of their browser. It's annoying, intrusive and baffling that someone thought "oh, this sounds like a good idea".
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We bought the lie that we didnโt have to pay for it. What if brands/pros on @Twitter and @instagram paid a few dollars a month for features? Or we paid $10 a year for email hosting? Companies could have still been profitable without selling out their โcustomersโ to advertisers.
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Don't worry now, 1 day you will understand it too.
Here are a few clues to get you started with your search about the true nature behind this incident, Why - in the future - every #internet / website user will be mandatory required to "log in" to almost all internet platforms.
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Surprised to see actual content on the screen. It's usually covered by cookie agreements (two, each introduced by a different law).
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I fall to see how a publisher choosing to put crap on their own website has anything to do with the delivery method of said crap.
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"The only thing for evil to prevail, is for good persons doing nothing (against it)"
This Planet needs a SECOND / backup fully decentrailzed #P2P INTER-MESH
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@aaronpk This doesn't make any sense. The magnifying glass isn't magnifying anything.
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I usually just tap that reader button because most websites are pure design garbage
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@aaronpk the profit motive ruins everything
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@aaronpk I realised last week I could no longer simply track a package from UPS with a token URL.
Signup is now required, along with a phone number and email address.
This has been going too far for some time.
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@aaronpk I realised last week I could no longer simply track a package from UPS with a token URL.
Signup is now required, along with a phone number and email address.
This has been going to far for some time.
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Agreed. Overstepping the boundaries of the readers has the effect of censoring the authors, sometimes.
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Consent banner looks like this, but idk why there is no sign in with google...
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https://outline.com is your friend, take the article url and put it in the box on that page and press the outline button to get the article with no pop ups, ads, weird formatting issues or paywalls :)
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Imagine what it would look like in Europe with the GDPR consent banners on there, too.
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@aaronpk โContinue as Aaronโ is okay life advice
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Excellent ๐
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Yes
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Yikes ๐ฌ
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Guessing from the header image... was, ironically, the article about Google surveillance?
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Exactly.
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Thatโs perhaps because @medium is less and less part of the web.
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@aaronpk this is why we canโt have nice things.
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@aaronpk Medium is the worst.
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RT @aaronpk@aaronparecki.com How did we let the Web get to this point. All I wanted to do was read this blog post. aaronparecki.com/2019/01/11/28/
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This is why I re-built alexlafroscia.com with @gatsbyjs and am ditching Medium. The platform is not worth punishing the people that want to give me their attention
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Hey @Medium, where the fuck are you going to? รฉ.รจ
Please think about your users, if they want to connect they'll do it with a button, if they want to add an app you can add a text below the article, not over it... - Vincent favourited
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Not sure it would've helped here, but nowadays I do half of my web browsing through web.archive.org