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We're going to move very quickly to a DRM supported web model. There won't be captchas, but you will require a locked down device (with no ad blocker) to access the content
That's why everything is an App now, and every website tells you "it's better in the app". In the app they have full controll over your device and can access much more data points, while the website is controlled on the users site and might have AdBlockers and other security features enabled, potentially hurting their ad revenue and data they can sell. From a developers perspective it's a nightmare to develop and maintain website, android and Mac os app side by side. Just having one good responsive website is cheaper, easier to maintain and gives you less headache with app store restrictions, reviews, device incompatibility etc.
It definitely doesn't take care of everything, but there are apps that run all the internet traffic on your phone through an adblocker. Most of the ones on Android setup a local VPN (a VPN running on the same device that's connecting to it) and run their adblocker through that.
Hear me out: part of me welcomes that.
Currently, most websites are awful to browse, and a few are not. If we switch to a world where most are inaccessible to me, and a few are nice, then I'll spend less time being frustrated by cookie popups and the like.
Like, if a site's going to be terrible, I almost prefer it just not let me in at all.
As an example, I used to click the occasional Twitter link. Now that I can't see comments, I refuse, and life is a bit improved.
I tried to read comments on a TwiXXer link the other day and was unsuccessful. I thought I was just misclicking or something. You're telling me it's on purpose?
That's stupid as fuck.
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One less reason to click on Twitter links
I'm with you. I've started using firefox with no extensions, not even ad-blocker. Whenever I am annoyed by a website autoplaying sound in a popup or asking me to sign up for their newsletter or whatever, I look at the URL and think: this website is dead to me now.
F U C K. T H A T
I think this might be why my parents got 'left behind' by technology. It's not that they couldn't figure out how to use new stuff but that the last generation of it was shit enough for them to turn their back on technology as a whole. Once you've missed a chapter or two it's hard to get back into the story. I can see myself going the same way tbh!
The more I have to deal with ads, cookies, ads, authentication, ads, data harvesting, ads, password hell, ads, free news article limits, and let's not forget ads, the more I want to go live in a cabin in the woods.
Of course, those are hardly affordable anymore.
Yeah I see that, too. I'm looking forward to having to have a whole physical computer dedicated for the sole purpose of browsing the Shit Web™ because online services requires a specific browser and OS profile. Not. But the good thing about all that nullshit is that more and more alternatives will come along from people like us who are fed up. So that dedicated computer might not have to be used all that much.
It's not worth it if I no longer control my own hardware