The internet is getting irritating

Websites telling you that it used cookies was annoying, now every website has the GDPR popup, websites are trying to send you push notifications.

In many ways, am glad about the GDPR thing but when a website you already visited and selected the options asks you to do it again, that gets annoying.

uBlock Origin, ScriptSafe and Pop up Blocker works pretty nicely, but sometimes they go a little too far and disables a site too much so I miss or don't see something unless I turn it off and that's only if I notice something is broken.
 
Rids said:
The one that is really getting on my breasts lately is the GDPR compliance stuff - please consent to us tracking you for advertising - and then you have the option not to consent and continue using the site - but they'll ask you every damn day to reconsent in the hope you'll give up and agree to their tracking. Its doing my head in.
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That's the irony, in order for them to track that you don't consent, they would need to use a cookie, which you don't allow. So every time you visit, you get the pop up, as you haven't allowed them to store the fact that you have opted out.
 
Rids said:
The one that is really getting on my breasts lately is the GDPR compliance stuff - please consent to us tracking you for advertising - and then you have the option not to consent and continue using the site - but they'll ask you every damn day to reconsent in the hope you'll give up and agree to their tracking. Its doing my head in.
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Go to opinion or manage or whatever theyr e hiding it as.

You can then deselect everything then accept no more pop ups but everything still blocked
 
Yes the internet just causes me stress these days - sure it has its uses - but, generally I dislike it - I've mostly stopped using social media apart from my business and after a month of withdrawal feelings (goes to show how addictive it is) - I now feel sick at the thought of sharing my every thought with the planet - yet everyone I know constantly posts pics of themselves, their whereabouts etc - it feels like social media is a competition between everyone to boast about who has the 'best life' - people seem to only go and do things now to create social media content, and not for the experience of it; even now I feel 'trapped' between wanting to show people im doing something 'cool' and having a word with myself asking why do I want to show the world this - its my life, and my experience, why does posting about it validate it - I suppose were social animals and society/social is competative in many ways but its all very strange once you manage to make it to the other side of the fence so to speak and see social media objectively.
 
^That is something that annoys me too.

Hell, I spend far more time these days watching people play games that I do actually playing games myself which is sad. The Yogscast guys are pretty entertaining though.
 
booking.com has to be the pinnacle of irritating
the **** that they display to manipulate you is :mad::mad:
i was on it yesterday and when you start to read all the details, they make any carphole sound like the best place to stay on the planet
 
I tried to read an article on our local newspapers website on my phone once. After a few seconds the article became redacted and told me to complete a quick survey to continue. What the actual ****?
 
bliss said:
I tried to read an article on our local newspapers website on my phone once. After a few seconds the article became redacted and told me to complete a quick survey to continue. What the actual ****?
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Local news websites are the worst, it seems like a competition as to who can cram in the most adverts.

I'm noticing more and more sites now require you to sign in after visiting a few pages. Usually asking you to link your facebook or google account.
Gets tiring having to delete cookies so you can see a few more pages.
 
Pros and cons of Web 1.0 and Web 2.0:

Web 1.0 (1990s / early 2000s)

Pros:

A/S/L
MSN Gaming Zone :)
mp3.com for unsigned / amateur artists
Etiquette / Netiquette was better back then
Internet trolls mainly trolled for social experiments i.e. wasn't to be taken personally
Internet memes were actually funny e.g. Hampsterdance
Flash animations and Flash in general before it was acquired by Adobe
Having a dual-T1 connection in student digs in 1999 r0x0r ur s0x0rz!!!1

Cons:

Internet Explorer
404 and 403 error messages (still exist in Web 2.0 but not as common now)
Personal web pages e.g. Fortune City, Angelfire, Tripod, Geocities etc
Pyramid schemes, and pass this email onto 10 more people otherwise you'll die
Pop-up ads (Mozilla fixed this with pop-up blocker in 2002 though)
Dial-up speeds (when home from university)
Early broadband wasn't as fast as a T1
Video quality was 360p at best

Web 2.0 (late 2000s / 2010s)

Pros:

Internet speed is now in tens of megabit/s
Internet radio e.g. Spotify
Soundclick / Soundcloud
Better choice of web browsers
Surf the web on a phone (yes there was WAP in the Nokia era but it wasn't practical)
Gaming sites can play inside of the browser rather than needing bespoke software
YouTube is better than TV in terms of content
WhatsApp and WhatsApp Web
General app integration with the web e.g. Drive, Calendar, Maps, Translate

Cons:

The terminally offended on Twitter
Everything has become politicised
Have you got Facebook / Twitter / Instagram / Snapchat? No? Ok, GTFO!
As above, please log in with Facebook / Twitter / G+
Joe Bloggs has checked into a pub and is drinking beer and is feeling emotional
Daily emails from Amazon, Argos, Just-Eat, Facebook, eBay, PayPal, Tesco etc
Google are in bed with Pinterest
Internet trolls launch direct attacks on people i.e. taken personally (rife on deviantART)
Internet memes / old memes are over-used
As above, My Little Pony is everywhere
Modal adverts (pop-up blockers and uBlock can't block these)
Modal surveys seconds after you've visited the site for the first time
We use cookies on this site - ok / ignore / don't show this message again

Summary:

Internet on a T1 back in 1999 were the better days imo :)
 
Right, legit question time, and a massive ****** off rant.

My wife just unfriended me on Facebook so we could see what we'd see of each others' profiles as strangers. We don't use Facebook much, mainly to see what others are up to in the family (allover the world) and I use it for study groups and stuff. I rarely post anything outside of that but even if I do, I thought everything was locked down to friends only. Quick look and although loads of it is hidden, there is still far too much on there, for both of us (we're generally private people).

I'll be making a fake account for the group's and stuff and deleting my Facebook account because quite frankly I'm ******* sick and tired of having to check the ******* thing every 5 mins to make sure they haven't changed a word in term 55b on page 732 of addendum 14a of the original terms and conditions to reveal all my stuff. I asked for my stuff to be private, I ******* want it private, end of discussion, not jump through hoops every time they change their mind.

Anyway, is there an alternative to Facebook where I can upload pics and stuff for family to see, using a link I send them? Cos I can't even begin to tell you how fed up I am with this whole scenario, honestly zuckerface can take all his servers and shove them up his arse for all I care.
 
Malevolence said:
How often do people on here wipe their cookies?
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Every time I close Firefox it's set to delete cookies so they are deleted countless times during the day, to protect all my forum log-ins etc there is an exception box where I cut & paste them in and select 'allow'
 
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