How did we let the Web get to this point. All I wanted to do ... • Aaron Parecki

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How did we let the Web get to this point. All I wanted to do was read this blog post.

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Fri, Jan 11, 2019 8:03pm -08:00 #medium #google

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- omni freeradical.zone/@omni
  
  @aaronpk
  Not sure it would've helped here, but nowadays I do half of my web browsing through web.archive.org
  
  Thu, Jul 8, 2021 4:28pm +00:00
- Al 🏔🎸 mstdn.social/@alpinefolk
  
  @aaronpk I have to REALLY want to read a post to stop me backing out and finding something else to read when I see that.
  
  Thu, Jul 8, 2021 5:20am +00:00
- Soul Dessin twit.social/@souldessin
  
  @aaronpk the problem was that you WANTED something and they found a way to capitalize off of it with most people.
  
  Wed, Jul 7, 2021 8:43pm +00:00
- Jester Sk00n of Pooland noagendasocial.com/@PawelK
  
  @aaronpk
  You dont own Your blog.
  Your blog owns You.
  
  Wed, Jul 7, 2021 7:22pm +00:00
- Adrian Cochrane floss.social/@alcinnz
  
  @aaronpk Seems relevant to link to Tom Scott: https://invidious.moomoo.me/watch?v=OFRjZtYs3wY (YouTube via Invidious)
  
  Wed, Jul 7, 2021 6:16pm +00:00
- Smol active living intelligence system lain.com/users/lain
  
  @aaronpk yeah, you should have prevented this
  
  Wed, Jul 7, 2021 6:13pm +00:00
- Ben Hutton twitter.com/relequestual
  
  My personal favourite is not being able to scroll down to tap a button that's off screen till the page has fully loaded because it's a modal... =[
  
  Thu, Jan 31, 2019 10:16am +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Ash Connell 🔥 twitter.com/AshConnell
  
  This is what happens when investors and product owners veto creators beliefs. No creator would willingly do this, it all comes down to data collection or making money.
  
  Thu, Jan 31, 2019 8:58am +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Michael Neal twitter.com/crystallinering
  
  Just canceled my Medium subscription.
  
  Thu, Jan 31, 2019 6:56am +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Other Joel twitter.com/goblinJoel
  
  god punishing us
  
  Mon, Jan 28, 2019 11:58pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Wael twitter.com/Wael3rd
  
  If a game designer did this they'd be given the "are you kidding me?" look so hard...
  
  Mon, Jan 28, 2019 11:00pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Benjamin Reid twitter.com/benjaminreid
  
  Seems the cookie banner was left out, could of been worse 🙄
  
  Mon, Jan 28, 2019 10:44pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Time Runner (Mark) twitter.com/90minutetape
  
  Mon, Jan 28, 2019 10:43pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Steve Rowling twitter.com/steverowling
  
  Reader mode on mobile Safari is a great way to avoid all this rubbish.
  
  Mon, Jan 28, 2019 10:29pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Christopher Sikkdays ourempty.pub/@sikkdays
  
  @aaronpk I can answer that, just sign up to my free site, allow cookies, allow all the trackers, and kindly install my app on each of your devices and those of your friends and family.
  
  Fri, Jan 18, 2019 3:16pm +00:00
- grumpy developer mastodon.technology/@grumpy_developer
  
  @aaronpk we got dragged to this point by smart and ruthless operators claiming chess pieces one after the other while the masses are catatonic and the astute resistance basks in ideological purity.
  but its not check-mate yet 8-)
  
  Fri, Jan 18, 2019 2:02pm +00:00
- Martin mstdn.io/@mflx
  
  @aaronpk
  Good ol browserbar days.. not.
  
  Mon, Jan 14, 2019 8:53pm +00:00
- Brendan Kidwell noagendasocial.com/@progo
  
  @aaronpk Medium.com went stupid a few weeks ago and declared "no more anon story reading". Any author that doesn't jump ship to a better platform -- too bad, I'm not reading your essay on Medium.
  
  Mon, Jan 14, 2019 2:10am +00:00
- John Evdemon twitter.com/jevdemon
  
  this is one of many reasons we need #indieweb
  
  Sun, Jan 13, 2019 12:56am +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Veronica Gillas twitter.com/VeronicaGillas
  
  I saw that too, so I stopped using @Medium altogether.
  
  Sun, Jan 13, 2019 12:06am +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- jish mastodon.technology/@jish
  
  @aaronpk I avoid Medium at all costs. Not even readability mode, or Pocket can fix it sometimes. 😔
  
  Sat, Jan 12, 2019 8:35pm +00:00
- Ishan Jain twitter.com/ishanjain28
  
  off-tangent. Google auto-prompting users to login to websites that use google login is single handedly one of the reasons I'll never for the life of me be a user of their browser. It's annoying, intrusive and baffling that someone thought "oh, this sounds like a good idea".
  
  Sat, Jan 12, 2019 7:25pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Trevor Dorsey twitter.com/tsdorsey
  
  We bought the lie that we didn’t have to pay for it. What if brands/pros on @Twitter and @instagram paid a few dollars a month for features? Or we paid $10 a year for email hosting? Companies could have still been profitable without selling out their “customers” to advertisers.
  
  Sat, Jan 12, 2019 7:21pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Ronald Vermeij twitter.com/RonaldVermeij
  
  Don't worry now, 1 day you will understand it too.
  Here are a few clues to get you started with your search about the true nature behind this incident, Why - in the future - every #internet / website user will be mandatory required to "log in" to almost all internet platforms.
  
  Sat, Jan 12, 2019 6:47pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Cezar Pokorski twitter.com/ikari
  
  Surprised to see actual content on the screen. It's usually covered by cookie agreements (two, each introduced by a different law).
  
  Sat, Jan 12, 2019 6:46pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- kornel@mastodon.social twitter.com/kornelski
  
  I fall to see how a publisher choosing to put crap on their own website has anything to do with the delivery method of said crap.
  
  Sat, Jan 12, 2019 6:34pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Ronald Vermeij twitter.com/RonaldVermeij
  
  "The only thing for evil to prevail, is for good persons doing nothing (against it)"
  
  This Planet needs a SECOND / backup fully decentrailzed #P2P INTER-MESH
  by the people for the people to empower everyone
  
  Sat, Jan 12, 2019 6:25pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- lertsenem mastodon.lertsenem.com/@lertsenem
  
  @aaronpk This doesn't make any sense. The magnifying glass isn't magnifying anything.
  
  Sat, Jan 12, 2019 5:59pm +00:00
- Hugo Bessa 🌿 twitter.com/hugoBessaa
  
  I usually just tap that reader button because most websites are pure design garbage
  
  Sat, Jan 12, 2019 4:58pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- captainbland social.coop/@captainbland
  
  @aaronpk the profit motive ruins everything
  
  Sat, Jan 12, 2019 3:29pm +00:00
- sullybiker sully.site/@sullybiker
  
  @aaronpk I realised last week I could no longer simply track a package from UPS with a token URL.
  Signup is now required, along with a phone number and email address.
  This has been going too far for some time.
  
  Sat, Jan 12, 2019 2:22pm +00:00
- sullybiker sully.site/@sullybiker
  
  @aaronpk I realised last week I could no longer simply track a package from UPS with a token URL.
  Signup is now required, along with a phone number and email address.
  This has been going to far for some time.
  
  Sat, Jan 12, 2019 2:21pm +00:00
- Lisamusing twitter.com/lisamusing
  
  Agreed. Overstepping the boundaries of the readers has the effect of censoring the authors, sometimes.
  
  Sat, Jan 12, 2019 1:51pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Christian Hockenberger twitter.com/chrisbergr
  
  Consent banner looks like this, but idk why there is no sign in with google...
  
  Sat, Jan 12, 2019 8:33am +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- 🔏 🌫🔮 mastodon.starrevolution.org/@UnclearFuture
  
  @aaronpk @AceNovo
  https://outline.com is your friend, take the article url and put it in the box on that page and press the outline button to get the article with no pop ups, ads, weird formatting issues or paywalls :)
  
  Sat, Jan 12, 2019 7:04am +00:00
- Not Fake Adam Kalsey twitter.com/akalsey
  
  Imagine what it would look like in Europe with the GDPR consent banners on there, too.
  
  Sat, Jan 12, 2019 6:48am +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Michal Migurski 📦 mastodon.social/@migurski
  
  @aaronpk “Continue as Aaron” is okay life advice
  
  Sat, Jan 12, 2019 6:24am +00:00
- Simon Howard octodon.social/@fraggle
  
  @aaronpk
  Is that about popup behind the popup I see?
  
  Sat, Jan 12, 2019 5:23am +00:00
- Paul Anthony Williams 🎺 twitter.com/PaulAntWilliams
  
  Excellent 🙈
  
  Sat, Jan 12, 2019 5:03am +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Aaron Parecki twitter.com/aaronpk
  
  Yes
  
  Sat, Jan 12, 2019 4:58am +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Nick Cummings twitter.com/nickcummings
  
  Yikes 😬
  
  Sat, Jan 12, 2019 4:55am +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Paul Anthony Williams 🎺 twitter.com/PaulAntWilliams
  
  Guessing from the header image... was, ironically, the article about Google surveillance?
  
  Sat, Jan 12, 2019 4:54am +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- 🦁Bōggie twitter.com/yanishen
  
  Exactly.
  
  Sat, Jan 12, 2019 4:54am +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Johannes Ernst twitter.com/Johannes_Ernst
  
  That’s perhaps because @medium is less and less part of the web.
  
  Sat, Jan 12, 2019 4:44am +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- 🌮 Dave Millar 🌮 puz.fun/@dave
  
  @aaronpk this is why we can’t have nice things.
  
  Sat, Jan 12, 2019 4:18am +00:00
- josh's harp mastodon.social/@joshsharp
  
  @aaronpk Medium is the worst.
  
  Sat, Jan 12, 2019 4:17am +00:00
Other Mentions
- 𝗦𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗞𝗪𝗢𝗢𝗗 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝟮𝟭 twitter.com/sprkwd
  
  RT @aaronpk@aaronparecki.com How did we let the Web get to this point. All I wanted to do was read this blog post. aaronparecki.com/2019/01/11/28/
  
  Wed, Jul 7, 2021 9:53pm +00:00 (via brid.gy)
- Álvaro Felipe twitter.com/AlvaroFelipe
  
  Una de las razones por las que deje medium. Dejó de ser un lugar donde disfrutar de buenas lecturas a un lugar intrusivo.
  
  Tue, Jan 29, 2019 10:58pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Alex LaFroscia twitter.com/alexlafroscia
  
  This is why I re-built alexlafroscia.com with @gatsbyjs and am ditching Medium. The platform is not worth punishing the people that want to give me their attention
  
  Tue, Jan 29, 2019 7:02pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Nacho Carretero Molero twitter.com/carreteromolero
  
  Looking at this image gives me anxiety.
  
  Tue, Jan 29, 2019 5:26pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- 👨🏾‍💻 Kam Banwait twitter.com/ScriptedPixels
  
  Ugh, bloody Google everywhere. This needs to stop!
  
  Tue, Jan 29, 2019 5:10pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Jeni Tehan twitter.com/DelishCreative
  
  Because instead of owning our own content and publishing it ourselves we decided to send it off to whatever trendy platform was popular at the time.
  
  Tue, Jan 29, 2019 2:40pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Derek Powazek twitter.com/fraying
  
  Medium’s first run experience has really gone into the toilet lately.
  
  Tue, Jan 29, 2019 3:58am +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Ricky Mondello twitter.com/rmondello
  
  You can tap and hold on the Safari Reader button to enable it for all compatible pages on a particular website. https://t.co/yqUiOwMTFi
  
  Mon, Jan 28, 2019 11:41pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Greg Tyler twitter.com/gregtyler
  
  But let's prioritise hiding the nav bar 😂
  
  Mon, Jan 28, 2019 10:50pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Kevin Ilphrin Pellet twitter.com/Kilphrin
  
  Hey @Medium, where the fuck are you going to? é.è
  Please think about your users, if they want to connect they'll do it with a button, if they want to add an app you can add a text below the article, not over it...
  
  Mon, Jan 28, 2019 10:34pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Jóhann twitter.com/JohannBenedikt
  
  Good mobile design means limiting yourself to only 3-4 CTAs with primary buttons per page.
  
  Sat, Jan 12, 2019 10:04pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Šime Vidas twitter.com/simevidas
  
  Websites: “You say users have taller screens now? Interesting…”
  
  Sat, Jan 12, 2019 4:26pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Vincent Pickering vincentp.me/favourites/2019/01/14/09-03
  Vincent favourited
  Mon, Jan 14, 2019 5:15am -08:00
- mrkapowski.com
  Chris McLeod
  Tue, Jan 22, 2019 1:11pm -08:00
- iiii.ca
  
  Wed, Mar 13, 2019 4:55pm -08:00
- iiii.ca
  
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