
gregarious canid. avatar by ISANANIKA.
Seeing how Fandom/Wikia is a major culprit of this, I feel it worthwhile to mention https://breezewiki.com/ .
Tl;dr it will mirror Fandom pages without the bullshit. I don't know how it will work with a phone, but something to look into.
OWO, I thought Fandom was a decent one… until I disabled the ad blocker. Makes me feel migrating a wiki from it might be worth the effort!
As I understand it they have a tendency to put their own people in charge of wikis that try to move away and use SEO shenanigans to outcompete the now-independent version.
Twitter having a lite version for 2g networks is such a boon for me for years.
Heck, I don't pay by the byte but I still have a data cap, and all that crap loading really slows down the page! The mobile web is just intolerable in general. On Android I can at least use Firefox with aggressive blockers, but I have no idea what people on iOS do short of setting up a PiHole and tunneling all their traffic through their home network with a VPN.
Auto-play is the bane of my existence. My least favorite has got to be when they auto-play a video - usually before I've even gotten the whole thing on my screen - but have the sound turned off. It's the worst of all possible worlds since it uses bandwidth, plays without user consent, but also plays in a way where you have to manually unmute and rewind it if you do want to see it. And it's not like they have captions on by default (in most cases there isn't any captioning unless the uploader did it themselves), so users who are deaf aren't served by this arrangement either. Garbage!
my favorite is when you click the close button and it says "closing video..." just so they can let it play for a few more seconds
but also google and chrome invented completely opaque rules about how and when websites are allowed to autoplay audio, which is why they all play muted now and beg you to interact with the page (which allows them to unmute)
Ugh, that sounds like a nightmare! I'm lucky that I've managed to get away with using Firefox only for a while now, although I do occasionally run into a page I have to open in Edge for it to function. -_- I don't think I'll ever get over the fact that these big companies all have seats on the W3C committee but don't actually adhere to the standards they help create.
Where would we be without that pinnacle of web 2.0 design, the 4mb JavaScript popup that loads an ad directly under your finger the instant you're about to click the link you actually wanted
I ran across this series of articles about building a lightweight version of a shopping site, only for it to be ignored and left to die in favor of a bloated React "web app": https://dev.to/tigt/making-the-worlds-fastest-website-and-other-mistakes-56na
Good technical info, but the end result is depressing and reflective of the sorry state of web development.
it at least makes sense in context, since the faster, lighter website didn't contain all of the bullshit analytics and business garbage, but it's funny to see just how much all of that really makes everything feel so bad
this is why i recompress my photos for cohost, even if i don't have to for cohost plus. if someone with google fi viewed a post with four images at max size, it would cost them forty cents
cohost not doing any kind of thumbnailing really sucks. thinking about it i'm not sure anything stops someone from just making an image tag that loads an impossibly large / endlessly loading bandwidth drainer (other than having to pay for the hosting of such themselves as well)