A while back I realized that it was just the browser keeping me on screen when I didn't want to be. I switched to the purely native Safari app on my phone, from a highly customized ad blocking browser, with lots of content filtering. My screen time dropped from like 2 hours a day to like 10 minutes.
I may be skeptical, so take this with a grain of salt. The transformation happened when someone decided to stop being UI designer, to become UX designer. That wasn't enough, so they came up with XD - experience design. At every step of the way, they introduced more lofty goals for the design to justify the increased importance of themselves.
mrmckizzle 2 hours ago||
It needs a feature that disables the whole page and prevents you from using it if it detects you are using Forefox.
wktmeow 4 hours ago||
Yea but do you guys remember when we actually needed pop up blockers to avoid having a site spawn like 10 new windows behind the current one, and tabs didn’t really exist yet, and the popups had adult content and sometimes they autoplayed sound/video? Like, internet explorer 6 era? Sometimes I miss those days
SamBam 4 hours ago|
You knew you done goofed when the adult site you opened on your family computer was opening new windows faster than you could close them...
0xbadcafebee 4 hours ago||
Not a problem; you were on a 28.8k, so the adult banner images would take forever to load, so you could close the pop-ups before they got you in trouble
bilekas 3 hours ago||
How will the poor analytics companies pay their poor salaries? And how will people be able to know to advertise to me about a pair of shorts I looked up last month??
freediver 4 hours ago|
Answer: ads as the main business model running the web since 25 years ago and us accepting the convenience of 'free'.
It turns out everything has a price, and in more recent times we started noticing that our time, attention and intelligence not being insulted also has value.