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[–] 39 points 4 months ago (5 children)

How about I summarise it? That way you don't have to deal with a cookie popup, a news letter popup, a signin with google popup, a request to send notifications to your browser popup, a back button that doesnt take you back to your previous page, and ads between every other paragraph.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    This, and newspaper writing style which endlessly beats around the bush, actually are the reasons for the mainstream accepting AI summaries. AI summaries only work because the Internet is a hellscape of intentionally bad UX with site-owners being hostile towards their users.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago

    Real newspaper writing style doesn't beat around the bush.

    SEO-optimization writing style does beat around the bush, because they have to try to "organically" mention all the keywords that might bring someone to the page. They also need to make it longer so there are more places to insert ads.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    The waffling happens because otherwise google drops their ranking and won't give them traffic .

    Search engine optimisation is satan's arsehole and has absolutely wrecked the internet....but it's only happening because of google.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    How the FUCK are people okay with the sign in with Google pop up?

    If you have any sign up with Google it adds itself to your site. Then it hijacks the user session by showing a large dialogue over your content. No, you can’t disable that, and if you do they might block visitors from finding your site. They might not, but maybe they will.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Why deal with user accounts yourself when you can Oauth it to big tech?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I mean for most people it makes sense.

    No one wants to make another account for the hundredth time.

    I always do because I don't trust Google et AI not to lock me out but the account creation friction of the modern web sucks.

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