On 21/05/2020 11:18 a.m., Dennisk wrote:
They complain about privacy online, yet see no problem pouring their digital lives into a Google database willingly, all because of "convenience."
Sorry, I just really needed to rant, as what you typed rang so true
with me and how I feel about the subject on a whole.
Add to that the proliferation of 'bait' sites, which are really just mass produced 'information', designed to capture a spot in google search, so that it
will be clicked on and ad revenue generated. Quite often, I may search for an
answer to a question, and get links to some site, where the web page linked to
has the briefest non answer, and heaps of ads, lists, etc. Do we need the crap
blog post with two sentences to say that SSH can be used to access a system securely?
The bait sites are such a data hog. It takes a long time for all the content to
load and usually they arrange it so that the ads load first.
At first they look interesting. Who wouldn't want to briefly check out a story on the top highly rated films and their "easter eggs", for example. But each page is just a few sentences with a filler image, and big NEXT / PREVIOUS buttons. The rest of the page is loaded with ads; the flashing or animated ones
are really annoying to me.
If you were to take the salient content of each page, you could probably read the relevant story very fast in one page-view.
Instead, these sites assume you have unlimited time and data to waste.
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