A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.
  • vext01@feddit.ukEnglish
    101·
    50 minutes ago

    Let’s go back to gopher?

    Read the guardian over the gopher protocol at my gopher hole:

    gopher://theunixzoo.co.uk/the-guardian

    • notabot@piefed.socialEnglish
      3·
      32 minutes ago

      Thank you for this, it makes for a nicer reading experience than their own website! Is the code open source by any chance?

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    6 minutes ago

    Btw, anyone has a example of a tracking canvas in html? Wouldn’t it falsify the results, if you resize it via a userstyle?

  • bleistift2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    32·
    2 hours ago

    Unless the user is actively navigating, the header is dead weight. The header should hide on scrollDown and reveal on scrollUp. Let the content breathe.

    This one I actually hate. Often I just want to scroll up a few pixels, either to satisfy a mild compulsion or to align the content so I can see most of it. This is completely ruined if the navbar pops back in. Leave it at the top of the page, where it belongs, not at the top of the viewport!

    • new_world_odor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      10 minutes ago

      I feel your pain. The really good ones plan for this, some pop up immediately when you scroll up and that sucks. The proper thing to do (imo) is to wait for the user to scroll 80% of the viewport back up, only then letting it begin to slide in, and have it slide in at a rate 1/2 of the page scroll. I do like having it easily available, but it should feel like it’s trying to stay out of the way.

    • village604@adultswim.fanEnglish
      8·
      2 hours ago

      It really depends on the site for me.

      What I really hate is a table that’s multiple scrolls long where the header row doesn’t follow.

  • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
    72·
    3 hours ago

    I have said it before, and I’ll say it again.

    An adblocker is part on my security suite on my computer.

    Ads can be hijacked to spread malware, and unless the site owner agrees to take both financial and legal liability for the possible dammage caused by their website I will never consider removing my adblocker.

    If they agreed to take on the responsibility, I still wouldn’t remove my adblocker, but I would consider it.

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.caEnglish
    35·
    3 hours ago

    I have to admit, I hadn’t realized it had got this bad. How did this get normalized?

    I browse with most scripts disabled, and have since JS was first introduced to the browser. What I’ve observed is that some pages contain NO actual content, or just the first paragraph, when I load them. I read what’s provided and move on. If the site is hostile to me reading their content they worked so hard to get in front of me, I’m not going to do any extra work to find out what it is.

    • vinnymac@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      28 minutes ago

      Ironically somehow AI is making disabling JS better nowadays, because text/markdown is becoming normalized, so receiving a pure text version of a page is a thing again.

    • Jack@slrpnk.netEnglish
      15·
      3 hours ago

      It is mostly because the bar is measured in time to display content (forgot the name of the metric)

      So the huge about of bullshit gets hidden by fast internet and asynchronous jobs.