"Using the Internet for the 1st time" from the "Programmers are also human" YT channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq7NLMwynYg

Popups and ads are not even a problem nowadays. They are easily blocked.

Those EU cookie shenanigans instead are pretty hard to remove. I have 3 extensions and they don't catch nowhere nearly to all of them.

Feels like internet before adblocker.

Sometimes even worse. The adblock hides them but the site is frozen and broken until you disable the plugin and interact with the cookie notification. At least with banners in the past you became blind to them. Now you're forced to interact with the popups.

Only if we let ad-supported business models get away with ruining the web for everyone. There are alternatives.

Thank you for this. It's almost a perfect template for a site I'm working on. Even had a few 'features' I'd forgotten to include. /s

Sadly accurate. On HackingWithSwift [1] today I had to add a Safari custom stylesheet to disable animations the developer put under the .pure-evil classname. They knew what they were doing.

[1] https://www.hackingwithswift.com/

It is even worse on mobile. When reading "news" There is one sentence on the screen to read. The rest is popups, advertising video. Can't even figure out where the actual article is...

Helped me with one thing though. Stopped consuming news. Suddenly I feel more happy and grounded :)

This is the sort of malaise that makes generative chat AIs and native mobile apps appealing.

An article I want to read is missing support for Reader View which commonly enables me to read TFA without delving into NoScript to enable js for site.com and site-related-cdn.com etc.

How will you keep people on your website unless you hijack the back button, you absolute fool.

Wonderful page, I completely agree. Especially the in-page pop-ups are an atrocity that Firefox still hasn't solved, despite having announced plans to do so (any tips are welcome, this shit is unbearable).

One thing I like about lobste.rs is that it included archive links. A step further would be one that directly pipes the article through some "reader mode" site.

Sarcastic web development deserves to be a genre.

It definitely felt like one 25 years ago.

Needs more pop ups but well done.

accurate

Many such cases. Sad!