Ask HN: Is the internet getting more jank? I've been noticing especially over the last 3 months, the act of browsing the internet has become a lot more... well, jank. Random apps freeze in ways that didn't used to happen (Firefox).. whole websites just kinda whoops didn't load that time. Everything from navigating to typing feels loose and bedraggled in ways that used to feel crisper. My PC is wicked fast. What gives? |
The easiest way to identify most of them, is a means to track every address and see where the loading process stalls at and if not essential, add into the deny / host file. This usually works but some sites will have a hissy fit when they don't get confirmation from some minor resource hasn't had a successful scrape and then refuses to load at all, or loads and blanks out the page. A few are pretty crafty like that - it doesn't solve everything and sometimes there is a price. I have banned one AI driven script a couple of years ago, that immediately afterwards it was like flicking a switch and feeling like a fifth of the net wasn't available any more - I can live with that though.
[1] tehparadox RIP 2017, of which in years afterwards many new versions popped up but were not viewed as valid as far as a couple of the old staff I knew from tehparadox