When exactly was it, that the web became hideously bloated with ads that practically hijack your browser, and 90% of websites rendered unusable without JS enabled?
Bloated web
Christian Martin
Colton Morales
that started the moment people found they could make more than their hosting costs bu showing ads, and it went from there. The only way to stop it is to drive the profit from showing ads all the way down to zero. Or possibly below zero, via some GDPR 2.0 that deliberately penalizes targeted ads.
Charles Lee
Plain HTML is fucking boring and it's literally just a text document with hyperlinks.
JS and other shit allowed to add functions to a website, but over time it became over fucking used, because who's gonna complain about that, really. That's it.
Dylan Richardson
Why does it need to be exciting, or eye popping? All I want to do is read shit.
Isaac Long
As bad as things are now, I think it's only going to get much worse.
Charles Sullivan
because its marketing duh
Logan Martinez
>When exactly was it, that the web became hideously bloated with ads that practically hijack your browser
199....4?
>and 90% of websites rendered unusable without JS enabled?
When was Chrome released? As soon as JS became near-native speeds and people stopped stigmatizing the performance capabilities of JS, websites realized that there is very little separating them from downloaded apps and so that's what they became. You can stay in the past if you want, but no one's going to care.
AdBlock is common sense.
JS Blocking is Ludditetry.
Josiah Williams
>JS Blocking is Ludditetry.
I think I hit a nerve
Parker Phillips
I think I hit bedrock. Amount of content to be mined here: 0. Just one pathologically averse to new technology nobody that nobody cares about or will ever care about, changing nothing, convincing nobody.
Juan Perez
ads have been around since the start of www. they've just got ever more intrusive, and i first really started to take note of it in the late 1990s.