20230711-nuke_the_web.txt
Today I was watching a video by Rossmann [0] about how Big G was
screwing over their advertisers by selling bad ads as "good" ads.
Basically it has to do with engagement and whether anyone will pay
attention to it. The case has fraud and false advertising written all
over it.
At the end, Rossmann wonders aloud whether Youtube will keep
steamrolling ahead as ads are a significant part of their policies and
profitability. I personally think it would be great if Big G got
absolutely eviscerated in court. It has gotten far, far too big for
its britches. A breakup would at least be something positive for the
consumer, I'm sure. Big G was great when it was only search, but
now... It's just far too bloated. The main services of Big G's I use
are Photos, Calendar, Mail, and Contacts... basically the email suite
+ Photos. And Photos I use more as a video repo than a place to save
family photos or whatnot, although I do use it for that, too. Big G
destroyed the free unlimited storage for everyone but Pxl1 owners,
which I am, thank goodness. I have physical drive backups that I use,
but online backup pretty much limited to Photos because nothing else
has terabytes of storage free (of which I know).
The main point of this is that the WWW has gotten far too bloated. I
watched a Fireship video on HTMX and was just dumbfounded. Why, oh
why, do people INSIST on reinventing things and making new languages?
Yes, I can see where C is better than assembly, but come on. HTMX?
HTML, JS, PHP, and CSS weren't good enough for you? You have to
introduce even more needless complexity? I hope it ends up like XML
only being used in niche circumstances. I hate the idea of older
browsers being unable to access content simply because some asshole
devs decided that HTML was too "old." I get irritated enough nowadays
because my smartphone from 2013 can't access most of the WWW because
of (I believe) SSL incompatibility. I can understand breaking banking
sites, but search engines? It's so odd how seemingly 90% of the WWW is
on HTTPS. While I like security, it doesn't really matter if you can't
access sites!
I kind of wish the Web would get nuked; decimated and destroyed of
most of the BS that has been created in the past 10-ish years. I used
to be able to shop on A-to-Z with Lynx! Granted it wasn't the best
experience, but I could do it! That's awesome. What's not awesome is a
site being blank because dominos.com shouldn't need fucking Javascript
just to order a fucking pizza. Maybe if you're paying by CC, but cash?
Just placing the order? Fuck off. I'd really love a return to the old
days on the Web. Things were simple and algorithms were for math
classes, not advertisers.
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https://yewtu.be/watch?v=hWJrsz_cmas
