Re:Ask HN: Why does the modern web hate users?
by wusspuss on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @09:54AM
(#30086155)
Getting you to click on ads does not takes megabytes of JavaScript diarrhea.
Re:Ask HN: Why does the modern web hate users?
by amatecha on Thursday January 27, 2022 @02:43AM
(#30097482)
Yeah but a completely-dynamically-rendered web app slathered in frameworks for A/B testing, feature flags, analytics & tracking, cookie permissions, media middleware, localization, theming and browser compatibility sure does.
Re:Ask HN: Why does the modern web hate users?
by wusspuss on Saturday January 29, 2022 @08:20AM
(#30126043)
>completely-dynamically-rendered web app slathered in frameworks for A/B testing, feature flags, analytics & tracking, cookie permissions, media middleware, localization, theming and browser compatibility
Getting you to click on ads does not take that. The only point in the list that makes money is spying I mean "analytics and tracking" but that doesn't take dozens of megabytes of js diarrhea and a thousand frameworks calculating DOM diffs and whatnot
Sometimes this is the desperate attempt to neutralize a competitor by cloning it. That's why Twitter copied "spaces" from Clubhouse, and Youtube and Instagram have copies of Tiktok in them (mostly hosting content with tiktok watermarks on, hilariously)