future of ~the internet~

indeed

No results found for "corrupt anus and stomach hospitals".

In France most newspaper content is paywalled, sometimes with 3 or 4 free views per month. I guess the big national usa papers are like this now too?

french internet forums like jeuxvideo.com (kind of a french reddit I guess though obv there are french subreddits) are ad heavy so you have a point about this global infection.

trying to imagine what subgenre of metal would give rise to that as a track title xp

Colorectalchairmancore

i like little more than clicking 'reject' when a website tells me it's going to track my activity. some websites make it pretty simple, i can reject all, or sometimes i'm offered a choice - i can accept functionality cookies but not advertising cookies. works pretty well sometimes! but there are some sites, like tumblr, that just fuckin do not care. they hide the link to 'manage' cookies, and all that page does is link to amazon, google etc's privacy policy pages! it is a hiding to NOTHING attempting to opt out of cookies placed by those sites via tumblr. i literally think it can't be done. i don't see how that complies with GDPR frankly. i know i'm being ridiculous and pedantic but EU law around this is supposed to allow this to actually work, to say 'i don't want your goddamned tracking cookies' and if big sites like tumblr (hollow laugh) blatantly don't give a shit how is there even a pretence that any of this is effective?

yes i've been here - http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices

the website barely loads

there's also this page? http://optout.networkadvertising.org

tried to read an article on Slate today and 'Agree' is literally the only option. all or nothing. i know i'm being crazy. it's making me crazy. maybe i was always crazy. i feel like richard stallman over here.

but maybe... maybe if i'm using Privacy Badger it doesn't matter? i could just say yes and my lil' blocker'll block 'em anyway? it's hard to tell from reading their FAQ - https://www.eff.org/privacybadger/faq#What-about-tracking-by-the-sites-I-actively-visit,-like-NYTimes.com-or-Facebook.com

I used to think the EU mandated cookie warning was almost enough reason to brexit, now i can't get enough of clicking 'reject all'. Gotta love the ones that only let you turn off the advertising cookies one by one, partner by partner, in a list of 50 or more. Nigh on impossible on a phone.

yeah exactly. or a computer tbf. and sometimes that list of advertiser cookies includes entries without a button to turn off the tracker, just a link to the advertiser's website. which turns out to be in dutch.

just cause i'm insane i sent a letter to Slate's privacy address asking them how I was supposed to opt out, and got an actually pretty detailed autoresponse back with various things to do. last graf reads:

"Finally, please also note that your deletion request would only affect data for vendors with data controlled by Slate. Some of the other vendors with which Slate works may have collected data, but they are independent controllers and thus request that users reach out to them directly. You may access a list of these vendors here."

of course that link goes to a webpage that first demands you accept cookies before reading it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

patreon yesterday had a pop up ad for a web seminar which covered the whole page and wouldn't allow me to close it without clicking that I was interested in going (I'm not)

A private equity firm has bought the .org domain, which will likely drive up prices for nonprofits. https://t.co/IrPax3uqBK

— VICE (@VICE) November 19, 2019

"Ethos Capital," you can't make this stuff up

dangit, my personal website is a .org

fuck

serve up .ilx and we'll win the internet

minimum buy in to get a gTLD is…prohibitive for goofy hobbyists

i would love to fork out cash for an .ilx domain

plus, we could sell it to mazda later on when we go public

not Accura?

you'd think Acura. but i know a guy at mazda who would love to take away the .ilx domain, if it were available for the right price

This could, and should, happen guys

huh i always assumed .org had special rules around it like .gov

would he settle for ilxor.com

depends. would you settle for...$140? Plus a reissue of Sonic Youth's Dirty LP in near mint condition? because i would definitely, i mean HE would definitely do that.

Is buffy on blu ray yet

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/27/21402493/amazon-halo-band-health-fitness-body-scan-tone-emotion-activity-sleep

"I honestly think you ought to calm down. Take a stress pill and think things over. Tap to buy one now."

What a nightmare. I'm professionally obligated to be concerned about the emotional tone analysis, but the body fat scanner is fucked

i liked this

https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/08/make_the_internet_harder_to_use/

Fastly has fallen over, apparently, causing outages of some big site: Guardian, NYT, Pitchfork, The Onion, gov.uk etc. etc.

I've gotten accustomed to getting ready for work in the morning while having a Twitch livestream in the background. Now Twitch is down and I'm just having to click on various YouTube videos in its stead. I am so hoping this issue gets resolved by midday because there's a music stream I use at that time for background music while WFH and I'm really counting on it being there for me. :/

fast world problems

what the fuck is fastly

I imagine it as a huge *internet transmitter* like the Emley Moor mast, and it's fallen down!

Is the Guardian more cursed than it used to be?

all sites seem okay to me (in uk)

Back now I think, well that was exciting

yeah seems to have been sorted now

this wouldn't be a problem if we just agreed to have 5g chips implanted in our brains

Guardian and Reddit back for me but NY Times and Independent still down

Hooray, Twitch is back up in time for me to fix and eat breakfast! *spams a series of hype emotes*

apparently fastly is...

...AMAZON HOSTING!

Amazon style sheets were flaking out so that figoors.

whenever i click a link the anxiety kicks in - how many trackers am i going to need to reject, how many 'x's am i going to need to close. the web has just become a total shitshow.

Love the sites where you have to unclick 'legitimate interest' individually for literally hundreds of companies. Though opening a browser console and typing "jQuery('input:checked').click()" usually works, what a world.

i guess this is exactly what FB et al want, for the web to feel janky and broken so you just stay in their apps

hey instagram I HAVE ENOUGH SHORTS

https://kotaku.com/latest

New Dead Space Remake Will Be Next-Gen Only
Horizon’s Aloy Joins Genshin Impact, Is Cute As A Button
Battlefield 2042 Sandbox Mode To Include Bad Company 2 Maps
PUBG Skin Looks An Awful Lot Like Hypnospace Outlaw, Dev Objects
The Best Switch Carrying Cases
You Can Get Vintage Game Magazines Delivered To Your Doorstep
Raphael Lacoste's Art Of Assassin's Creed
Activision Blizzard Sued By California Over Widespread Harassment Of Women (<<actual news)
It's Not Every Day You Get To See New Footage From A Game Nintendo Cancelled Over 20 Years Ago
My Speedrunning Career Lasted A Bit Less Than A Week
Genshin Impact Players Insist On Reaching New Region The Hard Way
Ubisoft Shutters Troubled Tom Clancy Game A Year After Launch
Help, Netflix Made The Witcher’s Vesemir Hot
Guilty Gear Strive’s First DLC Character Is The U.S. Secretary Of Defense
FFXIV Player Won’t Stop Until He’s Eaten Nearly 140K Eggs

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i don't know why kotaku is still in my mental list of websites i should look at. some things, some topics, just shouldn't be updated every day. there isn't enough to make it a thing that has new articles every hour or so for eternity. but they have to do it, to make money and have jobs. so they publish stuff like this. was it always this bad? i don't know. polygon is essentially the same website. they even run "stories" on the same non-events, like within hours of each other. there are a lot of websites like this. daily content, despite the content being non-daily.

i want kotaku to update in an irregular way, like every 3-5 days. and on that day, it should only run interesting articles, even if there is only one. and kotaku should ICQ me and say "i updated my website! :DD" . i will hear "uh oh!" and walk over to the giant CRT and read it, then excitedly sit down to read what my friend has written this time

the model for quite a long time now, and not just kotaku, has been volume and lots of it