Hacker News upset that Google is going to turn off ad blocking: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20044430 … Few mention complexity of the web; nobody points out that if it weren’t so insanely complicated, it wouldn’t require a huge industrial effort to build a browser, so there would be no problem.
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(I think it is bad to turn off ad blocking, and if this happens it will result in me using the web much less than I do today ... which is probably good in the end. But if you are going to solve the problem, solve the problem.)
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(If you are one of these Maoist Che Chavismo “we must destroy capitalism” types, probably the best thing you can do is figure out how to simplify software, so that anyone besides Google is capable of making software 20 years from now.)
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(When I tried Firefox some months ago, it couldn’t even scroll a web page without lagging very hard, so I am not sure why anyone thinks this is going to be a solution).
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Replying to @Jonathan_Blow
That must have been a lot of months ago. It's been a stable and performant desktop browser for me ever since they shipped Quantum.
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Replying to @Jonathan_Blow @busimus
Same can be said about your experience with Firefox. And I'd argue, Your experience is in the tiny minority.
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I am not making it up ... hundreds of people saw the livestream. All I did was install Firefox on a new laptop and visit some web pages. P.S. One reason why open source doesn’t succeed at user-facing stuff is this non-product “your problem is not really a problem” mentality.
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I will certainly agree that it *should not* be as complicated as it is to draw stuff on the screen, but given the current playing field, problems are being had.
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mov ax, 13h; int 10h; mov ax 0A000h; mov es, ax; mov ax 50; mov bx 100; mov dl 1; mov cx 320; mul cx; add ax, bx; mov di,ax; mov[es:di],dl This was my introduction to graphics. It's gone downhill since.
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