Modern Web Woes - I'm mad at the internet

[Jace on ice]

As of today you can no longer make a new Twitter account without the Twitter app.

On one hand I get it there are billions of jeet bots. On the other hand it sucks seeing the old web where you can just make an account easily in two seconds disappearing.

 

[cactus]

As of today you can no longer make a new Twitter account without the Twitter app.

On one hand I get it there are billions of jeet bots. On the other hand it sucks seeing the old web where you can just make an account easily in two seconds disappearing.

I don't get why Elon doesn't just IP ban all of India if they're that much of a problem.

 

[Jace on ice]

I don't get why Elon doesn't just IP ban all of India if they're that much of a problem.

That would genuinely be my solution if I was in charge yea.

 

[Curry Teafag]

As of today you can no longer make a new Twitter account without the Twitter app.

On one hand I get it there are billions of jeet bots. On the other hand it sucks seeing the old web where you can just make an account easily in two seconds disappearing.

X has been functionally crap for a long time. I haven't been able to access my account from a PC for two years, it only works from my phone (web app).
My stupid shitpost account had over 800 real followers, still has over 700, even though I don't post anymore, barely ever log in. But now, I need the X app and age verification for content marked 18+. Screw that.

 

[SchizoDaemon]

Is there some sort of script that you can load into something like Tampermonkey to bypass these stupid overlays? There used to be a lot of them floating around a few years ago but most of them no longer work.

Reader mode (Firefox) works on a lot of websites.

All of this bullshit is bad enough on Arkenfox, so I do not know why people are using Chrome with all of the shady stuff that Google does with it.

I've watched normal people browse the web without adblockers, they kind of just block it out mentally.

I don't get why Elon doesn't just IP ban all of India if they're that much of a problem.

I don't get why a lot of companies don't just IP ban the UK and other problematic countries. If I were Musk with the online safety act bullshit, I would just block UK and EU and be done with it.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

the first 30 results were all video thumbnails from either instagram, tiktok or facebook

I've noticed that sort of BS too.

Did you try a thing like azumanga daioh meme before:2010 or setting size to large?

>be ToroidalBoat
>see image in search results
>pic is all pixelated
>the real pic is over on "Facebook"
>go to crapsite
>"See more on Facebook" login popup blocks the view
>close it
>the image is not at the top
>must scroll down through endless other stuff to see it
>scrolling down and down
>"See more on Facebook" login popup blocks the view
>no way to close it this time
>never got to see the pic

FFS

 

[Nitro!]

Remember when eBay was good? eBay was never good. But, someone on there has got a part I want, and it's either that or the elsewhere Chinese seller (USA branch) that's selling a refurb (not marked as such) for three times the price (fuck you).

Log on in to the ol' eBay account. Your account has been blocked! We think someone has accessed your account! No, no one did, unless you count me on a different computer, and very clearly it does. Very cool, thanks. How do I fix this? "Talk to an Account Specialist" on the other side of the planet. Ugh. This is the only option provided.

Two minutes wait estimated, then we'll call you! Yeah right, but fine. I'm still trying to buy this thing. Ten, twenty, forty minutes pass, no call. No sign of their "24/7" hours being real at all.

All of these security measures make this site completely unusable, so I give, I'll make a new account. Same IP. Same machine. Same browser session. Account made, item purchased. Welcome to eBay, where account security is a problem we can't solve!

 

[The Greatest Kiwifarmer]

Is Captcha simply refusing to work on Librewolf for anyone else? It seems like a bunch of sites are triggering captcha specifically for Librewolf and it's those 9th circle of hell type of captchas where the images you've selected very slowly fade out and then a new batch fade in and then no matter what you actually select it tells you that you've failed the captcha and to try again.

by chance are you on a VPN? some servers get marked as bots so they will put you into captcha hell depending on your IP address.

also yes ive noticed this. on YouTube especially its absolute hell trying to view a video without logging in. i think this is specifically more of a VPN issue rather than a browser issue since i can easily switch my location to a different IP and get no captchas.

 

[moosemeese]

Needing to go into some faggot's discord server to download mods will never not be annoying

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

I'm just so tired, boss. Group chats were never any good and it's all Discord is. I attempt to talk to 'friends' who're permanently set to show as offline. 9 days later they'll 'reply' by venting, to then shove in a random quick reply to my previous message to justify them being "busy". Meanwhile I see them on Steam, set to offline, clocking in 5 hours of gaming a day.

They're not busy. They're not adults with kids. Nothing has changed in 10 years except the normalization of just never being around, despite being so. Nobody had privacy issues when you couldn't show as offline. "Well I wanna be offline-" then fucking log out. Quit. But no, you show as offline cause you still want to demand attention when it's beneficial without giving any.

Honestly I could uninstall Discord, despite sending messages to friends several times a day, and nobody would fucking notice. I am so fed up with this attitude. Put in some fucking effort.

 

[Critical Raxx Theory]

You could set ICQ and MSN messenger to show as off-line

 

[Do Not Touch Me Pls]

As of today you can no longer make a new Twitter account without the Twitter app.

On one hand I get it there are billions of jeet bots. On the other hand it sucks seeing the old web where you can just make an account easily in two seconds disappearing.

I didn't really believed at first, then I noticed that the sign up button is replaced by a download the app.



Shit's fucked.

And I thought the "no phone number and no 2FA, no login" every other site is on is bad enough. And this has nothing to do with security, these are all done on purpose to make things as inconvenient as possible.

also yes ive noticed this. on YouTube especially its absolute hell trying to view a video without logging in. i think this is specifically more of a VPN issue rather than a browser issue since i can easily switch my location to a different IP and get no captchas.

It is 100% a VPN issue, trust me.

Nothing has changed in 10 years except the normalization of just never being around, despite being so.

Speaking of nothing has changed in 10 years, as much as people on the Trump/Musk faction give out hopeful rhetoric of any turnover against the UN status quo, nothing has actually changed and it's still the same 10 sites plus whatever remains of the old Internet.

There is simply no hope to begin with until the USA somehow charges back Obama's deal with ICANN and then all of the Big Tech somehow gets rid of all of the Jeets and replaces them with new personnel.

If anyone is on a long distance plane before, do you know that you are only given a very limited selection of TV shows and flash game-type video games on a long haul flight that it would make watching BBC news look platable for wasting the 12 hours on the plane (which is made even worse by the ban on mobile charging ports on planes so you have to engage with the in-plane entertainment)? This is how Web 4.0 will look like.

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

Speaking of nothing has changed in 10 years, as much as people on the Trump/Musk faction give out hopeful rhetoric of any turnover against the UN status quo, nothing has actually changed and it's still the same 10 sites plus whatever remains of the old Internet.

I keep seeing this thread on KF titled "you're about to lose access too 99% of the internet" and even if that happened, nobody would notice. People use the same 10 sites, literally, whereas I recall everyone trying to find the new niche forum to hang out on. I spent most of my youth on this public-media owned forum that got shut down and a indie version then reappearing. It has gone from 50 to 10 users over 10 years, yet everyone there knew each other by name and met up a few times. You literally only need 10 people to run a decent forum, especially given how non-invested people are these days. I miss when the internet was a thing you went on and used. I still rush home after work every day yet I do nothing of worth on here. It's like drinking: Done when nothing better is available, thus doomscrolling.

 

[Stasi]

I somehow managed to mostly avoid it until now but the AI sloptent has finally invaded my youtube feed.

I swear over the last few weeks every other video on my homepage that I've clicked turned out to be some jeet or other third worlder using an AI voiceover. Its pretty convincing and probably fools a lot of people but there are still signs like it will trip up over acronyms or use words a native speaker wouldn't where it mistranslated it into English or something.

You click on an interesting looking tech video thinking its a guy doing something cool with an old computer but its just some Indian farming the algorithm with AI. I fucking hate it.

 

[Angry Alt Right Nerd]

Every website spends 5-10 seconds verifying my computer now to make sure it's not a bot, but somehow I'm pretty sure there's still plenty of bots on the internet

 

[mango_reseller]

This is all well and good and all but in much more important news, Signal (Archive), Mullvad (Archive) et al have taken a public stance against the nightmare world the UK is trying to build.
Signal's post (PDF)


tldr: UK is trying to force through on-device scanning under a protect the kids banner. This will mean your phone (and in the future, I'm sure, personal computer) is constantly monitored for content the UK government doesn't like, and reported to the UK government if and when that occurs.

(The US is trying to force a number of bills through ourselves that would follow in the UK's footsteps, so yes, suffah UK, but also it's looking bleak)

 

[Hepativore]

This is all well and good and all but in much more important news, Signal (Archive), Mullvad (Archive) et al have taken a public stance against the nightmare world the UK is trying to build.
Signal's post (PDF)
Ver archivo adjunto 9126504

tldr: UK is trying to force through on-device scanning under a protect the kids banner. This will mean your phone (and in the future, I'm sure, personal computer) is constantly monitored for content the UK government doesn't like, and reported to the UK government if and when that occurs.

(The US is trying to force a number of bills through ourselves that would follow in the UK's footsteps, so yes, suffah UK, but also it's looking bleak)

All of Big Tech and governments across the world are in on this.

It is a win-win situation for them. Governments can keep tabs on people and flag those who might have some "subversive" opinions on things or leak information that might embarrass various political elites, while the techbros can make even more money selling your data to the government, advertisers, and anybody else who wants a share of the data pie, all at our expense.

 

[SchizoDaemon]

This is all well and good and all but in much more important news, Signal (Archive), Mullvad (Archive) et al have taken a public stance against the nightmare world the UK is trying to build.
Signal's post (PDF)

The ministers don't care. They don't listen to anything anyone says. I don't understand what the point is of writing these. I suppose it is a public stance.

You are better just telling them to fuck off and telling everyone you accept Monero and being done with it.

Ver archivo adjunto 9126504tldr: UK is trying to force through on-device scanning under a protect the kids banner. This will mean your phone (and in the future, I'm sure, personal computer) is constantly monitored for content the UK government doesn't like, and reported to the UK government if and when that occurs.

Yeah, this is why it is important if you give a shit to use open-source operating systems and programs whenever possible.

(The US is trying to force a number of bills through ourselves that would follow in the UK's footsteps, so yes, suffah UK, but also it's looking bleak)

The US is normally just behind us, or it is doing this all through the backdoors with regards to surveillance.

 

[mango_reseller]

You are better just telling them to fuck off and telling everyone you accept Monero and being done with it.

I think it's important to keep up appearences, especially if you're a company that will be the main/only alternative to this bullshit. Get too cocky with responses and you make bad-faith argumentation that much easier.

Governments can keep tabs on people and flag those who might have some "subversive" opinions on things or leak information that might embarrass various political elites, while the techbros can make even more money selling your data to the government, advertisers, and anybody else who wants a share of the data pie, all at our expense.

More or less, yeah. At the end of the day it depends solely on how much the average person cares for their right to privacy. If the answer to that is "not at all", then there's not much anyone can do. At that point it's up to the anti-democratic checks and balances of the US system (i.e. the supreme court) to solve it.

 

[SchizoDaemon]

Get too cocky with responses and you make bad-faith argumentation that much easier.

They do so anyway.