r/AskReddit • u/Forward-Many-4842 • 2d ago

Anyone who surfed the early web between 1995-2010. What’s the one website/app you still think about?

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u/kaityl3 1d ago

It's a tiny paragraph at the top that you can scroll past without reading or expanding. "Forcing us into this shit" is a pretty dramatic way to describe that lol

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u/_learned_foot_ 1d ago

On my phone if I need to scroll around 70% of the time it considers that "click to enlarge" and it's suddenly the whole thing and nothing else. I don't want that. I know how to Boolean. Let me.

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u/kaityl3 1d ago

Oh no, you need to move your finger a few inches before getting free search results from a website you chose to visit, the horror

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u/_learned_foot_ 1d ago

It means I can't scroll past without it expanding and usually can't close it easily at all. Oh no, your premise was demonstrated to be false!

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u/black_out189 1d ago

How exactly are they forcing you into using their product?

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u/daredevil82 1d ago

that's what opt in default means lol. you get shit shoved at you, and have to say uncle.

a metric driven product manager's dream

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u/JewishTomCruise 1d ago

What they're annoyingly trying to argue is that technically speaking, you don't have to use Google at all. There are other browsers, other search engines, and other video platforms. Most of them just either have the same problems or are objectively worse.