The web is becoming unusable

Re:The web is becoming unusable by bonobo3000 on Monday November 02, 2015 @03:45PM (#10495079)

Adblock/uBlock works great. If you want to experience the web as it is, then yeah I agree, it sucks. No one has really figured out how to monetize content without ads yet because people won't pay for it, so thats where we are.

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Re:The web is becoming unusable by byron_fast on Monday November 02, 2015 @03:50PM (#10495119)

I'm sure Adblock works great. I'm interested in how the web works for people who don't care about technology, and it's a nightmare. Ad-supported software or web apps are a descending staircase of user-hate.

People will pay for content - but that content needs to be worth paying for.

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Re:The web is becoming unusable by njorth on Monday November 02, 2015 @04:52PM (#10495564)

You'd be lucky to find 1 in 1,000 to donate money out of kindness, even if you published an entire book on the Web and continued writing on matters of interest.

http://practicaltypography.com/effluents-influence-affluence...

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Re:The web is becoming unusable by eevilspock on Monday November 02, 2015 @04:10PM (#10495266)

Byron and anyone else who agrees the web is kinda fucked: I'm working on spinning up a group or website where we can figure out where the web is broken, propose principles for a healthy web, and promote solutions by anyone or any company that adheres to those principles.

Email me if you'd like to participate.

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Re:The web is becoming unusable by timdavila on Monday November 02, 2015 @06:02PM (#10496018)

Have you seen Maciej's "Six Fixes"?

http://idlewords.com/six_fixes.htm http://idlewords.com/talks/what_happens_next_will_amaze_you....

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Re:The web is becoming unusable by YeGoblynQueenne on Monday November 02, 2015 @05:27PM (#10495810)

An easy solution suggests itself: abolish money. Free the web.

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Re:The web is becoming unusable by AnimalMuppet on Monday November 02, 2015 @06:04PM (#10496030)

You may think that's an easy solution, but the side effects could be pretty severe...

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Re:The web is becoming unusable by YeGoblynQueenne on Tuesday November 03, 2015 @06:32PM (#10503518)

I would really have liked to say "replace money with x" but I have no idea what x should be.

Just the fact that you're right though, that we'd have a big problem if we just got rid of money, goes to show we really, really should find a way to get rid of money. Preferably without breaking everything else in the process, of course.

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