@popey All valid points from a #PIM perspective, I agree and totally understand.
Most of them can be mitigated with #Firefox add-ons I'm using since many years.
But that's not the reason why I'm commenting here.
If everybody is using #Chrome or #Chromium-based browsers (Blink) because it's more convenient, there is no alternative to "go back" any more once one megacorp is controlling the #WWW and its only browser engine left.
Can we fix the #web#www yet? I am so tired of #browsers being bloated VMs/tracking devices but I am almost forced to use them and it makes me sadgry. I know about some lightweight ones but all I get is "please enable javascript to view this page". Anyone have a solution to this constant pain?
There's a patch for Chromium to implement Google's "EnvironmentIntegrity" which is a power-grab to allow web-sites which are impossible to view on a free browser in case it does things like block adverts or translate or describe for the visually impaired.
More than a hundred comments on the commit in the repository: All negative, calling shame on this attempt to enclose the free web.
Quite right too. No single person is claiming to want the feature because no actual people do want it. Just the controlling brainwashing greedheads.
Firefox users will not have this code, but will that just end up meaning they don't get to view the corporate enclosed web?
I read an article on #Cnet
earlier today and apparently scrolled a little too far, such that a different article started. The new article hijacked the page/tab title AND the url, even including its entry in my browser history, so that when I later wanted to revisit the article I actually read... there was absolutely no trace of it.
I had to try some searches on their mainpage to relocate it.
it took several years, but I finally scored a boxed copy of Wildcat! 5 BBS.
this very late version of the server software was released in 1996, during the rapid death spiral of the bbs scene
it advertises itself as a bbs <-> internet bridge, and that your board effectively runs as a mini ISP. it even comes with its own baffling Wildcat! Navigator browser, which might be a rebadged Netscape (?)
one of my goofy side projects will be to some day run this janky bbs on an old dual processor Pentium II I have laying around, and set it live on the #www
Cool! One of my Internet favorites, the Internet Archive, is in the Fediverse! With their own server! Among many other things, I use it for researching family history.
Why is automatic hyphenation not used so widely in the web? Justified texts with hyphenation just look so better. Can someone explain this to me? Maybe I‘m missing something … #CSS#webdesign#www
Horrible experience the current WWW is becoming in the recent years. Becoming more centralized by the day. All the pop-ups, cookies and advertising drives me crazy (sure; ad-blockers). All the privacy problem that comes with the current browser features, leaking all kinds of data to the server. I can't even read a simple article anymore, because I'm not from "that region". I really hope developers are willing to focus more and more on decentralization! The Fediverse is only the beginning.. #www
Remember when the internet was open? When people used the web to publish and read information. When browsing the internet felt like an adventure full of discoveries? I used to love that internet.
Then corporations took over and it all went downhill. Money kills creativity. Greed removes all incentive to do something for the benefit of others. Monopolies fucked the open internet.
Update: https://social.veltens.org/@angelo/110643298577042397 Now all #twitter t.co links are blocked by twitter login. All #links we ever shared via twitter can not be followed anymore without signing in to twitter, no matter where in the #WWW they point to. Twitter put a gate in front of our links by "shortening" them and now they locked the gate. We never should have given them such power. #gatedcommunities#fediverse#web
if you work for a company that uses Google Chrome and has the browser centrally managed by the IT department, you might want to file a ticket
A bunch of built-in advertising-related data collection, auction functionality, and reporting is getting turned on in an upcoming (current?) release--seems best to turn this off in a corporate setting
I picked #Fosstodon as my #Mastodon instance because it appeared to be very #FOSS-friendly but dependence on #CloudFlare is a clear no-go. It's also quite old which speaks for stability (also very important).
Unfortunately, in many places of the #WWW, you can't really run away from #CloudFlare anymore. However, #Mastodon is very different because of its decentralization. I hope I will find a suitable new instance soon.
DHL will keine praktischen Links für Neuzustellungen
Digitalcourage e.V. hat eine Website mit hilfreichen Direktlinks auf DHL-Formulare aufgesetzt. Dem Paketunternehmen gefällt dieser Service aber offenbar nicht.
The promise: all of the world's knowledge, instantly at your fingertips.
The reality: a few "facts," possibly made up by a large language model, swimming in a sea of prose after the jump, IF you can find the “X” to close the ad.
「 Berners-Lee eventually convinced CERN to release the World Wide Web into the public domain without any patents or fees. He has since attributed the runaway success of the web to that single decision 」
— @NPR
When I was involved in starting a volunteer-run community newspaper in the late 1990s we built and maintained our own website, which contained full copies of all our issues. How did the web get so mystified and inaccessible that community groups - and even businesses - now rely on FarceBook and other corporate providers to host their web presence?
Biden administration announces more new funding for rural broadband infrastructure (apnews.com)
The Biden administration is continuing its push to bring internet connectivity to every home and business in the U.S.
FCC chair: Speed standard of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up isn’t good enough anymore (arstechnica.com)
Chair proposes 100Mbps national standard and an evaluation of broadband prices.