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.
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.
I’m terrified of the day that some company starts partly copying articles and changing key details after the first plagiarized paragraph. I will be royally fucked when that day comes
Isn’t that why people stopped using archive.is and co?
I seriously and unironically believe whatever web developer has the gall, the temerity to imply that a news article in plain fucking text is an “Experience™”, and then fuck up loading that plain text, something webpages have done and been able to do flawlessly since the invention of the web, should be taken out back and shot.
Web developer here. Theres no say for us in this matter, best-case a tech lead says its not supported by the current tech-stack, but in any other case its management and marketing that decides what features get added to the site, we just build it.
Best we can do to fight back is make the experience terrible for users or even better just unprofitable.
Your disgust is valid. But the developer generally has no gall, and no agency. The corporation tells them to pack and monetize the clickthroughs like feeding puppies into a sausage machine. The developer never thought that would be the job.
In fact, every time you don’t see something like this, it’s because some developer said, “Enough, I won’t do this,” putting their job (and their next rent payment) on the line. I lost two jobs that way.
Don’t let them divide us. The fascist oligarchs are the villains.
It’s kind of your problem if your connection can’t handle 14 GB of trackers and ads, pleb.
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Please sir, you aren’t enjoying your experience
I’m calling the cops, he’ll enjoy the experience.
You’re experiencing late stage capitalism. Thank an oligarch today!!
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.
Jim has to put his pants on please wait a second
Being fapped at. That is the experience
Seems like everyone else missed what the article was.
Now bend over for your “s’experience” and like it.
I demand we bring back the little construction worker gif for these scenarios.
The NBC logo kinda looks like the final outcome of the passengers “experience”.
The experience here is 25 TB of javascript processed by a Turing-complete Rube Goldberg machine powered by a hamster on a wheel
My IT teacher, 20 years ago, if I tried pulling shit like this.
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
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.
