Why The Web Is Such A Mess
Tim Berners-Lee envisioned a "universal information system". What went wrong? • MORE BASICS: fiblock.info/player/PL96C35uN7xGLLeET0dOWaKHkAlPsrkcha.html
Written with Sean Elliott SeanMElliott/ • Camera by Tomek • Graphics by William Marler wmad.co.uk
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@sxnderr ツ I think it was open to people who payed for the channel
Nice
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if you had a problem in the initial days, you could send a Eudora message directly to the developer, who would then help you fix the problem. It was a really exciting time.
Vote Saxon at 9:32
I love the "Vote Saxon", nice touch haha!
easyly solved, ban all forms of advertisment, and place laws making it a death sentence if you do so. lets see how many people will make ads then.
I mean, if all else fails, I just use the developer tools to delete the pop-ups on websites. No, it's not entirely straightforward or easy (well, it kind of is, but I rarely use HTML or CSS or even go on websites like those much anymore), but it still works and I don't have to accept something.
I do recommend the combo of Adblock Plus, uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger to everyone (at least on chrome, probably other browsers too) to block ads and tracking.
'Pree-vacy'
‘Pri-vacy’ and ‘pree-vacy’ are both accepted pronunciations.
Is this why eBay continues to have really really basic google ads at the bottom of listings that nobody clicks on? Perhaps they have a deal with google so people can track them?
Vote saxon at the beginning tho
You know what's funny... a total of 0 of the adds I get relate anything to anything I look at. Look at gen z shitpost? Here, here's an ad for trojan condoms.
So a cookie is a Mystery Biscuit, right?
Google both simplified and destroyed the internet
Pi-hole. learn it, live it, love it. No more ads, no more tracking, no more bs.
Pop up blocker for the win!
Remember kids, always use adblock.
Ah... ignorance is sure a bliss... now I'm informed and annoyed 😢🤦♂️
Adblock: I'm about to end this man's whole career
The web has always been messy
0:01 Is hilarious!
adblock?
Laughs in heavily modded firefox with cad ublock noscript and decentraleyes
I feel like Tom works in IT/Cyber Security
Vote Saxon. Nice Doctor who reference.
LET ME TRACK YOU USING COOKIES THAT YOU DON'T MIGHT NOT DEFINITELY ACCEPT BY CLICKING THIS BUTTON OR YOU GET KICKED FROM THE ARTICLE
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great information in a short video, thanks Tim
I love the "reticulating splines" joke at 0:15 😆
Well at least now we don't have every page with cursor with weird shape, falling hearts or stars, playing music since you open page....
Me: HAHA NEW AD BLOCKER! My favorite website: Looks like you're using ad blocker. We need every cent to make the website alive! If you don't block it, we won't be able to help! You won't be able to get help from other people! Have fun with your potato computer. Allow ads? Me: ..
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A computer that thinks it's running on hardware but is actually just a simulation in a browser window sounds like the concept for a niche horror film.
Vote Saxon!
I started coding USING MY PC, but im getting adds about coding on my iPad.
Vote Saxon!!! Brilliant!
Vote Saxon!
me: *Laughs in Pop up and ad blocker.*
Superman is gonna get some REALLY annoying ads
I’m so glad someone finally explained cookies in a simpler way
Advertisers are parasites, definitely not of the same species as us.
Is that a Doctor Who reference at the start?
Seems to me that the intrusive pop up boxes are the fault of the EU...
that intro made my sides hurt...thank you Tom, i really needed that laugh 🤣
Screen resolution being used to fingerprint people. *Sweats in 2650x1600
i haven't had a pop up in over 5 yrs i switched to GNU/Linux ;)
I had been thinking about this, it's nice to know that I was kind of on the right track. Even nicer to see informative videos put into form that is very clear and easy to understand.
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U wanna cookie?
Tom, please don't distract me with Vote Saxon logos.
Vote Saxon. Might I say you are a -Master- of references, Tom
*advertisers are not people :(*
Advertisers are as rampant now as viruses were in the late 90s
Even before watching this video i had to watch a advertise.
... Were under the same corporate umbrella - - - SWITCH TO GOOGLE PIXEL, THE-- [Skip Ad>]
My tools to fight the annoyances: - uBlock with annoyances blocklists enabled, blocking most ads and trackers - Firefox to allow normal operation of ublock, since chrome started to restrict adblocker capabilities - "I don't care about cookies" extension to stop the cookie popups. They are blocked anyway. - "Facebook container" if anything slips through, it still stops facebook tracking around the web - SponsorBlock extension to skip in-video ads on youtube. I'm paying for premium, so stop showing me ads. and a few more, but these are the most important.
My general go-to method: If a site denies me clean entry for more than 10 seconds, I don't use it. The exception is FIblock, where I only F5 my way through various "Ad 1 of 2" cycles before finding some non-intrusive ad that doesn't require me to drop what I'm doing to hide it. No I don't use adblockers all that often, there are people who rely on ad revenue to fund their channels.
is this why chrome is such a ram hog when it’s running cus it’s just throwing cookies into ram
That intro was amazing!
the fact that only innocent people get targeted in mass shootings and terror events and never big tech or big govt people says all you need to know about those false flags If these "terror" events were real, there would be at LEAST one major hit on these people
Depressing
Who's watching timeworks about This Glitch dude
Vote saxson
Tom paid by the word now
Why is tom Scott's comment is older than the vid?
I like the vote saxon reference
All his work replaced with content. “Vote Saxon” someone’s a Who-ligan.
Hey tom. Can a website just mine bitcoin, without the user knowing it happens?
Maybe Tom didn't notice, but if you opt out, many sites will keep pestering you about your settings, but once you opt in, suddenly they're forever silent.
well 8:32 is a really good idea
Apparently, Facebook's adverts have a very different code so ad removers can't recognise it
The danger of reader view and the rejection of advertising is that it will force content/information providers to insert advertising into what the user is attempting to view - i.e. paid product placement or articles that portray a sponsor company in a positive light.
Good
FIblock, the dic*s that they are, have unsubscribed me from your channel.
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The cookie that you use reminds of the one from If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, it was a very cozy book that I loved to read when I was young.
The web isn't a connection between two existing places, it is the new frontier, and unlike previous frontiers like in the discovery of the new world and the gold rush, it doesn't really have physical limits.
If you didn’t know: Google also owns FIblock and just put a tax on Non-American content creators about a week ago, and also operates the biggest search engine, monitors audio and visual data from your phone, and uses all of that to sell said data to advertisers. Yes, even incognito mode searches. Not even just the sites you visit, any words or even letters you type into googles search bar will be recorded, even if you delete it, and even if you delete your search history or go on a “deep wipe” the server that google legally owns that is in a secure building somewhere in the world still has that information, and always will, unless if google wipes its own servers, which means, all data advertisers and companies have gathered on you and me up to this point, can and will be sold to other companies in hopes it will help them get you to buy their product, or at least look at it.
CIA also does this to American citizens, if you don’t believe me, search up John Snowden (I think that’s his name, I could be wrong)
At the beginning, you rejected all those permissions yet accepted all cookies.
Me with ad block plus, don’t worry it’s disabled on FIblock
0:58 indeed, advertisers aren't people
Vote Saxon! The band??
I would argue that there’s 3 reasons: 1. Advertisers 2. People (spam/malware) 3. Governments (cookie notifications etc)
War... War never changes.
Would be funny if Browser cookies turned into Biscuits if I Change The Language To English (UK)
Every bit of freedom that a government* has for creativity, and good...
I noticed that "Vote Saxon" poster at the start
i would say they are not only cookies the Browser have a localStorage too
Interesting stuff
The GDPR should have defined the consent boxes, the question phrasing, the buttons and their effects precisely.
5:35 literally just translates to "do you not want cookies to be used" "ok"
0:16 I love the reference to young Tom replacing other people’s work with the word “content”
Vote Saxon. Nice doctor who reference.
I don't remember what it was, but I ran into a website that required me to accept all cookies or manage choises to see the page you get to by clicking manage choises.
everybody should have a cookie warning blocker extension, i've been using one for like 2 days and already i feel way less frustrated
Like everything else humanity make it worse
On my Chromebook, I have it so I have an option to “Force reader mode” if I want to look at just the text. Its in chrome://flags
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I actually had no idea 'reader view' existed!
I swear i've declined cookies before and i couldn't access the site anymore...i'm not imagining am I