yeah, even if they're muted

the hipsters seem to forget that video playback consumes resources, and just because I have a powerful CPU doesn't mean I want my power to be wasted


you're right. the same crappy sites that make it autoplay with fucking sound.

as far as I'm concerned, it's simple. Any video player that automatically blares sound at me gets adblocked.

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I'd rather adblock those that piss me off, I don't want to miss shit by adblocking too much.


I should probably also use NoScript, but with the constant increase of omgmodern websites that require Hipsterscript to work, well ugh...

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but everyone has permanent unmetered gigabit fiber access!!!!

or so think the dumb hipsters.


speaking of hipsters, some gems among the company websites I saw:

* a company about storage resell/etc. Site has an animated background showing people move super fast in a warehouse. Sure enough, said background is a fucking 22MB video. Metered connection users will all love having their data wasted for that!

* another company about smart maps or whatever. They have a video presenting their service, okay, not terribly bad. Except making it a youtube embed or whatever wasn't cool enough: it plays silently as a background video (again). 14MB this time.

* and there's that other site with the most terrible contact form ever. Dunno what they tried to override with their shitty JS, but it LOVES resetting fields for no reason. Type in email, go to another window, come back, email's gone. Type in message, then check a radio button under the textbox, poof, message's fucking gone. A shame, the website actually looked decent otherwise.



... I want to start a petition to demand that killing web hipsters becomes legal.

Or locking them in a jail cell with a Pentium II computer and a metered dial-up being their only contact with the outer world, and forcing them to try using their websites.

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oh also, those of you who use Facebook are probably used to the constant flood of clickbait content (and thinly disguised ads, but those are less present).

well, the clickbait trend is coming to Youtube. The "random related videos" list often has a few of them at the top.


oh, and anyone found out how Youtube video comments are sorted? someone told me they're sorted by popularity (number of likes), but nope.

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not only that, but they get money for each survey completed

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bullshit.

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the need for money is legit but not an excuse to be an ass to your visitors. Politely asking is fine, cockblocking users isn't.

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