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I just wanted to take a moment to enjoy how clean the web can be (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I happened to click a link that took me to the associated ~~twitter~~ X account for something I was interested in and was greeted by not one, not two, but four modern day web popups.

I know it's nothing new. I've got a couple of firefox plugins that are usually quite good at hiding this sort of nonsense, but I guess they failed me today (or, I shudder to think, there were even more that were blocked, and this is what got through)

What's the worst new/not-signed-in user experience you've encountered recently?

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

This kind of thing getting worse and worse at all levels of tech is increasingly pushing me to the fringes of tech solutions (with all of the handicaps that come with that) as those are getting to be the only places where this kind of thing is not pervasive.

No apps on phone, if the mobile site doesn't work it can wait until I am in front of a desktop/laptop
No NFC payments as that requires the phone to be blessed by lord Google or father Apple
No set top streaming boxes on the TV, just a small Linux powered PC and a cheap Logitech wireless keyboard/trackpad
Only Linux OSes on desktop/laptop

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I’m headed in that direction.

Minimal apps on my phone, most of them foss apps to access my self hosted services
Raspberry pi 4 running osmc connected to our TV. TV itself has no internet connection
Want to move to graphene os, but riding this iphone 12 mini until it dies
Linux on my server and my primary computer. Have an M1 Mac Mini that my wife primarily uses (too many papercuts for her with asahi linux. We tried and switched back), and iPadOS on the iPad Pro that I have that I’m also riding until it dies.

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