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Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by fullsend on Thursday September 16, 2021 @04:20PM (#28556999)
True. Unfortunately many large corporate websites through which you pay bills, order tickets, etc. are becoming infested with JS widgets and bulky, slow interfaces. These are hard to avoid.
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Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by artificial on Friday September 17, 2021 @03:33AM (#28562359)
Conversely no software to install. Browser as a platform. Don’t have to boot to Windows to pay your bills with activex for example
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Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by foxfluff on Friday September 17, 2021 @01:50PM (#28568605)
The mostly JS-less web was fine, fast, and reliable 20 years ago and I never had ActiveX.

I hear stories about Flash and ActiveX but I literally never needed these to shop or pay bills online. Payments also didn't require scripts from a dozen domains and four redirects..

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Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by artificial on Saturday September 18, 2021 @03:21PM (#28578540)
Yup, and taking payments online was awful but privacy was more of a thing. In South Korea ActiveX was required until recently. https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/10/south_korea_activex_c...
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Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by TeMPOraL on Friday September 17, 2021 @11:05AM (#28566305)
The platform isn't the problem. The problem is with the amount of code that does something other than letting you "pay bills, order tickets, etc.".
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