Submitted 15 hours ago by scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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Trust corporate America to take something as simple as loading a text article into a digital “experience”. What the hell even is that? (Its marketing jargon for ads, I know). Talk about a circle jerk around the marketing table though.
You’re experiencing late stage capitalism. Thank an oligarch today!!
The world didn’t need as many programmers as we were led to believe. Showing text, images, and video is a solved problem. There doesn’t need to be a new framework every 6 months. They don’t need to throw out the last one to churn out a rehash of the same website so coders can justify their existence with some metrics of performance designed impress people who barely understand what they’re seeing, but nod their head in approval so nobody realizes they’re bluffing to hide their tech illiteracy. Everybody in the room is doing the same thing. The nerd with slide decks is grinning ear to ear at the approval. Maybe he starts to believe in the mythology that he might be a unicorn himself. It’s exercise in collective delusion. It needs to work because everybody involved is getting crazy rich. So the delusion must go on.
You don’t have your plumber come in every year and redo to all the pipes. Each time adding another superfluous section that serves naught but to make work for him. You sure don’t let him install a coin operated meter so he gets a cut of your water bill every time you need to flush, and then praise him like he’s the second coming of Jesus. He might be Jesus the plumber, but he’s no messiah. Maybe next years rework you’ll have him install a credit card swipe on your bathroom door.
Nobody is building entire trillion dollar multinational corporations around plumbing. Nobody is holding quarterly plumbers development conferences to announce the latest in pipework technology. In which the whole world streams it and watches in awe as they reveal the all new pipe join. Now for $999 a piece. You can’t call your plumber fast enough. Technology is cool but people can’t separate the science and engineering from the the trade work. They think the people making increasingly more cumbersome Rube Goldberg machines of code are the ones doing the science and engineering. Quite frankly I’m certain too many programmers think that too.
You’re right, no one is hiring a plumber to redo their entire plumbing in a home…but they are hiring them to fix leaks and unclog drains (patching) that’s what most programming is. Patching.
And most patching is fixing leaks (exploits/vulnerabilities) that can destroy your house.
A key difference is that engineering standards have grown to the point where we don’t hire a plumber to come multiple times to clear drains and patch leaks. The drains were built large enough and with proper materials to last for years without maintenance. We don’t have people constantly shoring up bridges either.
This is why some people don’t consider software engineering to be engineering.
Too many people justifying their existence by shipping unnecessary and poorly thought out features leads to unreliable, complex software that needs constant maintenance to keep it running.
Yep, most of programming done today is reinventing the wheel by grabbing someone’s Github project and slapping aggressive monetization on it.
i get shit like that frequently because scripts don’t run here unless whitelisted. usually either the content requires scripts to show itself, or blocked ads are blocking the rest of the page load, or both.
it’s at this point where i scoop-up the headline and drag it over to the ddg search box in the browser toolbar and find a different source. there almost always is.
NBC News can fuck right off with this “experience” crap. They aren’t the Jimi Hendrix Experience, they’re a damn News outlet. Just load the text.
Please sir, you aren’t enjoying your experience
I’m calling the cops, he’ll enjoy the experience.
Jokes on them, I go to the source code and extract the article like that. CTRL + F and search the first sentence in the source code. You’re welcome.
Firefox / Librewolf have a reader mode that does that for you too.
You might like Bypass Paywalls Clean.
Thanks!
Right, the Bild tabloid that repeatedly failed to sue adblockers for violating the “copyright of their protected work” aka their webpage.
afaik in china adblockers are illegal because of unfair competition
I demand we bring back the little construction worker gif for these scenarios.
Jim has to put his pants on please wait a second
Probably downloading couple of megabytes of JS in the BG to track you and serve you more targeted ads. Or could be some kind of anti-bot, human verification thing.
is that why people hate Comcast
The experience here is 25 TB of javascript processed by a Turing-complete Rube Goldberg machine powered by a hamster on a wheel
There should be a name for that… experiencification? We get that in the UK too – where investors take an ordinary service and try to turn it into an ‘experience’ to justify charging more. Stuff like mini-golf where you literally just want to pay them to loan the gear and nothing more.
Enshittification, which is turning a free or reasonable cost thing into a money pit while also making the software worse to use.
Now bend over for your “s’experience” and like it.
The NBC logo kinda looks like the final outcome of the passengers “experience”.
criss_cross@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Reader mode is a godsend for this crap.
GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Google’s AMP was supposed to stop this, but they never could get around the conflict of interest between “our search engine experience is improved by prioritizing fast loading results” and “our ad business needs websites to carry a ton of ads,” ended up carving in enough exceptions and an anti-AMP backlash that they pretty much walked away from the whole thing.
solarspark@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
Google? Walking away from a project it starts? Who could have seen this.
Anyways good riddance let’s all walk away from Google 👍