I Hate the Modern Web

[sdwaltz]

Not sure if this is the appropriate forum but given its focus is on older systems I thought I would express my frustration here.

Trying to review a new car and on the J.D. Power website reading information about it. Every 30 seconds the page refreshes! Which means I'm reading along and boom! A page refresh causes me to lose my place and I have to relocate the information I was just reading. By the time I do that I read another partial or, if lucky, another sentence and boom! A page refresh. This is ridiculous! It's like you're reading a book, someone comes and rips it out of your hands, and then hands it back to you. Only to repeat the process again.

Also what's with the cookie alerts? Yeah, I know...it's a rhetorical question. Does anyone actually do anything other than click dismiss, OK, or what have you so they can move on to the content. This is with almost every website these days.

Have website developers forgotten what the purpose of a website is for? To convey information. I remember the good old days when one could go to a website and actually read the content without annoying interruptions. The J.D. Power website is one of the worst I've ever experienced. The constant, frequent refreshes make if almost impossible to keep a train of thought.

/rant

"Have website developers forgotten what the purpose of a website is for? To convey information."

Unfortunately...not really anymore. The purpose is to generate revenue, which is generated each time the page is viewed.

Or refreshed.

Hence some websites refreshing on their own. Yeah...I hate the modern web too.

 

[TheShortTimer]

...Closing that opened an autoplaying "featured video" that had no relation to cleaning a sieve. Only after getting rid of that was I finally able to read the "how to clean a sieve" article...

This irritates me no-end as well. Autoplaying videos with no connection to the matter-at-hand that appear when I visit a page and I'm then forced to either pause or if possible, close the overlaying pop-up video. It's particularly irritating when I'm viewing web content on my phone because this nonsense eats into my data plan. Multiply this over a week, a fortnight and a month and imagine how much of your data plan has been consumed by videos that you didn't even want to watch in the first place?

Why do we put up with this rubbish?

Not enough of us are recognising the agency and leverage that we hold as consumers. If there was a change on that front, this rubbish would soon end or at least diminish. For my part, I make a point to discontinue visiting sites that insist on this practice: which is basically designed to help the webmaster(s) boost the viewership figures of their video content and in turn demonstrate their attractiveness to advertisers.

 

[PowerPC Punk]

...this rubbish would soon end or at least diminish...
Ja, yeah, remember the basic idea of Tim Berners-Lee.

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