Oddbean new post about login | logout Current state of “news” website experience: 1. Click link 2. Slide up overlay to accept cookies. No option to reject. 3. Popup with an ad 4. Close 5. Auto play video close 6. Paywall Leave.
literally any website here in eu btw it's torture https://media.tenor.com/Dbq_im3MkUAAAAAM/laugh-hard.gif
Sometimes you can read the article with the reading mode button of your browser, bypassing the paywall and other overlays.
Try this experience instead: 1. Leave.
Even reading this makes me feel ptsd
Ditto!
Brave Browser… And if not Brave browser, why even bother with a “news” website in the first place since is majority propaganda 🤓
GDPR is website cancer. I’ve been slowly clicking “hide all stories from…” in my Google News reader for a while every time I hit a paywall. You start to get links to some smaller sites, but eventually you quit hitting paywalls as much. Honestly a lot of the small sites are better anyway.
WELL IT'S ALL PYSOPS ANYWAY SO HUER BETTER OFF
12 foot ladder and the old 10 foot pole website will go around that.
What really boggles my mind is that somehow they’ve duped people into paying for these sites…and still show ads. They’ve talked people into paying to be advertised to. And the content is mostly shit anyways.
It is the same thing regarding bad beer. Why would anyone buy Budweiser? They are clearly being fooled by it. Somehow they want to support what they believe is connected to them, or that sets them apart from others. There is comfort in ignorance.
Pi Hole
If it doesn't load a readable article, leave
My RSS still DGAF nostr:nevent1qqsddzxe99ngkjnmsa0cs2lyheenpzrdl4s4r0c4th2es4ggfgay0pcpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejsygqmcu9qzj9n7vtd5vl78jyly037wxkyl7vcqflvwy4eqhxjfa4yzypsgqqqqqqsgdj3fc
Alternate strategy, 1. Click link 2. Realize it's a news site before it's loaded 3. Panic and hit the back button 4. Put the phone down 5. Open a beer 6. Keep drinking while angry that I can't black list domains from search results. 7. Become upset about the old Internet that we lost 8. Smash my phone in a fit of rage because it's made by Google. 9. Order a new phone from Amazon with overnight delivery. 10. Sleep 11. Return to step 1 but start pissed that I gave Amazon and google more money.
You're absolutely right. I've cut back visiting news sites, including video, by 90% and just catch up weekly. That's been my solution.
dystopia