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I miss older html internet (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by UsernameIsTooLon@lemmy.world to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world

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Ignoring the security implications, I miss kb large old raw html websites that loaded instantly on DSL internet. Nowadays shit is too fancy because hardware allows that, but I feel we're just constantly running into more bugs first and then worry about them later.

Edit: I've thought more about it, and I think I just missed the simplicity of the internet back then. There's just too much bloat these days with ad trackers and misinformation. I kinda forgot just how bright and eye jarring most old UIs were lol.

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[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There isn't a day I don't think about how annoying the modern web is. Fancy crap, GDPR, a trillion frameworks weighing 1mb+ each, a ton of useless extra info for SEO and whatnot. All to see the pure information I initially seeked saying "yes". Which could've been a 1kb site.

[–] Hubi@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The GDPR is not annoying. The fact that it is necessary is annoying.

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago

Truetrue. Yet it still doesn't serve much of a protection service. What should we care a about a tracking-cookie when most sites use multiple tracking-scripts anyway? Or force you to either accept or pay. Or simply deny entry at all.

I just need another plugin to block another thing...