KojiroVance
Sr Member
It's probably not PC to use this word from my youth, but a lot of web sites are spastic. I even find that I can't read the articles on my tablets because ads and SSI blocks keep pushing the text up and down. I don't like playign Whack-a-mole with my eyes, while reading.
One site even popped up popovers on top of the text I was reading twice, separated by 30 seconds. I closed the window in disgust.
Either I'm turning into a grumpy old fart, or it's reaching critical mass …*some pages/sites, I just don't read. I abandon my effort to read and give up. It's that bad. And as someone who was there at the outset of the Web, I consider this the end of days. When content tricks and ad-revenue stunts are making content[1] secondary to all the clickbait, ads, survey invitations, and dancing bologna, then I'm all for just reading a book.
[1] And I haven't even talked about sites where their spelling, grammar, and copy editing is below a 10th grade educational level!
One site even popped up popovers on top of the text I was reading twice, separated by 30 seconds. I closed the window in disgust.
Either I'm turning into a grumpy old fart, or it's reaching critical mass …*some pages/sites, I just don't read. I abandon my effort to read and give up. It's that bad. And as someone who was there at the outset of the Web, I consider this the end of days. When content tricks and ad-revenue stunts are making content[1] secondary to all the clickbait, ads, survey invitations, and dancing bologna, then I'm all for just reading a book.
[1] And I haven't even talked about sites where their spelling, grammar, and copy editing is below a 10th grade educational level!
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