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ABC shuts down official Twitter accounts due to 'toxic interactions' (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some of my local news stations have terrible websites that take forever to load, yet those websites were probably cutting edge at some point.

Nah, most local news sites came online as garbage and will never rise above that status. The cleverest of them came online as bare bones, no frills websites that the affordable local website developer they hired could actually maintain.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

most local news sites came online as garbage and will never rise above that status

The amount of pop-ups, sleazy Taboola ads, and autoplay videos (with 2 ads at the beginning and end of a 30 second clip) is too damn high. Just clicking a link is a fucking assault on your eyes. And yes some form of this still happens to me with adblockers or firefox.

I guess I thought the goal was to get people to use their websites, not fucking punish them for it.