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TreasonousBastard

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4. EVERYBODY's new web pages suck...

Wed May 13, 2015, 12:26 PM

May 2015

I have no idea what the point is for 100 pages of bullshit code generated by some insane utility. Gobs of cookies, trackers, and other spy stuff in that code telling Google and the site owners more about me than telling me about them doesn't cut it.

On my home computer I might wait for a minute for the damn pages to settle down and then can't copy text. Optimum keeps bragging about their download speed, but then it takes forever for their own pages to load.

Our phones and the internet are that vacuum that as they get faster must be filled with bullshit.

I found some old pages I put together in HTML 4 and they loaded in microseconds-- looked damn good, too.

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Am I the only one who thinks the BBC's new Web pages really suck ? [View all] eppur_se_muova May 2015 OP

I notice the decline in commercial art skills everywhere olddots May 2015 #1

Change for change sake. Basic LA May 2015 #2

The entire web is getting terrible in the rush to format content for mobile users. FSogol May 2015 #3

yup Skittles May 2015 #13

EVERYBODY's new web pages suck... TreasonousBastard May 2015 #4

It's probably all for Win 8, I assume /nt jakeXT May 2015 #6

Yes. I'm not liking this new internet environment... hunter May 2015 #5

Yes, its the issue with making everything mobile friendly... the lowest common denominator. DCBob May 2015 #7

Maybe this foreshadows a split into two Webs ... eppur_se_muova May 2015 #9

That's how BBC was set up previously. hunter May 2015 #10

Google announced a few weeks ago that non-mobile friendly web sites would lose ranking rocktivity May 2015 #8

Could I be worse than CNN? Renew Deal May 2015 #11

I just clicked on the TV tab to find out what to watch tonight nationalize the fed May 2015 #12