Web and Internet Annoyances...

I'm very glad to see I'm not the only one who gets frustrated and pissed off at all the excessive javascript on websites these days.

I'm talking about those java popups that obscure and grey out an entire webpage.  Some have a convenient close or x button, and there are some that do not.

And those popups to invite people to "LIKE" their page on Facebook or whatever social network.

I'm getting to the point where I hate the internet.

From:  http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?826674-Is-30-Javascript-Files-Too-Much

Am I the only one getting frustrated by the ridiculous overuse of Javascript in web pages these days? 

I wanted to check the temperature in my local area. So I browse to the website of my local television news station. The website loads slowly. It's like watching paint dry. It's reminiscent of being on dial-up. So I check the source and count over 30 javascript files being included. 

What happened to usability? What happened to the emphasis on speed and not making users wait over 15 seconds to view a web page? 

What kind of developer thinks it is a good idea to have that many javascript files included in a web page? The number of Javascript files I counted was 32 including analytics scripts. I can't imagine how long it would take to do all that on a slow connection.

No dude, you're not.  I personally think webmasters are ego trippin' on this unnecessary shit.

Here are some more comments on this webpage about it.  Some are pro-javascript and some are definitely ANTI-javascript.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/373818/whats-with-those-do-not-use-javascript-people

Javascript annoys me when it is required for the site to function, especially for things that should not depend on it (like opening a link). Basically your site should work perfectly with Javascript disabled - the Javascript should just make it nicer to use. 

Say I have javascript disabled (for whatever reason - security, paranoia, CPU usage, ad-blocking etc), I should still be view that picture, albeit not with a fancy Lightbox effect, or submit a form, again albeit without dynamic in-line error reporting)
There's nothing "wrong" with Javascript, it just shouldn't be obnoxious, or mandatory. 

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Javascript is a major attack vector for drive-by downloads. 

Many browser vulnerabilites can only be attacked through javaScript, and about half the security alerts issued about browsers read "while we're working on a patch to this vulnerability, you can protect yourself against it by disabling scripting".
On what machines do you think those spam bots are running? Nowadays, most of them fell victim to a drive-by download on some website that used Javascript to attack a browser vulnerability, and in many cases the malicious code got into that website through an XSS attack. A study conducted by Google last year found 10% of all websites they surveyed to contain such attacks! 

So yes, Javascript (Flash too, btw) is very much the problem, not the solution, and it's becoming a bigger and bigger problem. Eventually it will be too big to tolerate; you better be prepared to find a way to make your website work without Javascript when every single Joe User out there has (or closely knows someone who has) had their ebay acount, paypal account or even bank account broken into, and is told they could have avoided it by deactivating Javascript in their browser. 

Of course, this is a worst-case scenario, and maybe browser developers will manage to get their act together, or some sort of sandboxing technology for Javascript engines (or the browsers themselves) becomes prevalent, though that would still do nothing to counter XSS. 

But saying that Javascript is not a problem right now betrays appaling ignorance in someone who develops web apps professionally. 

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you all miss one important thing. With client-side scripting, MY BROWSER is where all the stuff is executed. And if I allow this to happen, I thereby give YOU, the damn site developer, nearly full control over my browser. I can even agree with some people here who says JavaScript as such (as a programming language) is not bad, the bad thing is the idea of client-side scripting. 

JavaScript being executed within the client's browser is malicious and dangerous by design. Many people continue to say that -- well -- JS virtual machines are buggy, yes, and security holes are found, one by one, in these machines, but the problem is not with the client side scripting, only with implementations of these virtual machines, and one day we implement a secure JS VM, and everything will be fine. That's LIE. Just one thing: the CPU time needed to render a page. Without Turing-complete code on the page, the time is just a (almost linear) function of the HTML length. But once we get the Turing-complete code and allow it to execute, the rendering time is not only no longer a function of anything, it is UNPREDICTABLE (hell, mathematically proven to be unpredictable). 

These web developers who use JS (actually, nearly all existing web developers, which is sad) force us, their users, to trust them so fanatically so we don't mind to give them full control on our browsers. Hey, may be you also need a key of my house?

So webmasters, businesses, product salespeople,etc...  LISTEN UP!

WE HATE THIS SHIT!   STOP IT!  Listen to your readers/clients/customers or lose them forever!

So I have to be bothered to install extensions on Firefox and Chrome such as YesScript, noscript and whatever script blocker needed to get rid of these friggin' annoyances, just so I can browse the internet in peace.

There's also boycotting sites too.

I guess I'll be the anti-javascript bitch?

Errors...

The internet is borked!  EVERYTHING on the internet sucks.  I used to love the internet back in the early days.  And Windows 3.1 was a decent operating system.

NOT anymore!

A CONSTANT Blogger error...

An error occurred while trying to save or publish your post. Please try again. Dismiss

But it's not only this, it's EVERYTHING about the internet.  NOTHING works properly.  NOT a damn thing.  Sometimes it's shitty computer software and other times it's shitty websites and HTML/coding inconsistencies.

Internet Explorer has always been a piece of shit, but now it's worse than shit ever thought about being.  Like viewing blogs in I.E.  Especially any Blogger blog, which is another cloud file service, so no surprise there.  I.E. and its TROLL compatibility view BS.

Firefox used to be good, but not anymore.  It's this never ending unresponding Java Script.  Firefox won't even get to Blogger without hanging or crashing!   And while Google Chrome works better, it still has the side bar ads and links are jumping up and down real fast, like it's on Crack.  I detest Java Script.  Now just about every site uses excess Java Script and excess Flash. Java Script is totally Evil! We are being scripted and flashed to death here!  Give us a break already people!  Clean up your shit sites!

And also YouTube already sucks anymore...

Youtube videos randomly stop playing, or don't play at all ...

http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/youtube/ApR7zN1freI

And I know it’s not just I, because a quick Google search yields tons of other people running different software on different machines encountering the same problem. So, if you’re going to reply to this forum saying, “Update your software. Blame your slow ISP. Et cetera,” don’t.

And this has been going on for MONTHS!

And it's ALWAYS blame OUR computers, Update this, change that browser, add a Peeni, or whatever the fuck installation they can come up with... How about "if it ain't broke, don't fix it?"  But I guarantee that they'll fix it until it IS broke, and that you can count on.  Sometimes our computers are to blame, but most of the time, it's THEIR faulty shit websites and services.

And how about every other time I want to watch a YouTube video and I get nagged to damn death over name change.  And you can't just hit "I don't want to change my name" and expect it to go away for good.

And it's mostly YouTube, Google Services, and Yahoo services.  The mainstream CLOUD FILE services with all this shit.

Even other things, ad sites, our worksites are screwed...

Clickworker login doesn't work the first time, but does after a second attempt, and that is ALWAYS!

Virus protection is fucked up usually.  What's the sense in having it, if it's defunct?

Button is there when I start out, but hover the mouse and it will disappear!

Button disappeared!

And some page displays are all borked to the umpth degree!

I mean who the hell can even read this shit page?  Seriously?  Are all webmasters now on crack?

And let's say you want to view something or see a document, download a Free offer of a file, etc...  Can't even do that, because you MUST submit your email first, to be put in their mailing list before they'll let you see something, or download that document you want to view.  DATA MINING!

And let's not get me started on what a piece of shit software/operating system Windows 7 is.  All it really is, is a half assed souped up version of Windows Shit Vista!  I always thought XP was the anti-christ, but Windows 7 (& probably 8 too!) is the devil himself!

And how about those sticky keys?  Trouble typing?  You bet!!  And I'm not the only one!

WTF??!!

Sticky keys are not turned on.  I checked.

I did the cntrl+shift+* (the star key or digit 8) which only worked temporarily, and now the problem is back.

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/495940/keyboard-stops-typing-text-keys-start-activating-functionsmenus/


And Windows Media Player is so fucked four ways from Sunday now.  It automatically puts a folder.jpg into your music folders, of what IT wants to put in there, even if you put a perfect jpg version of what you want displayed, it will override and some files are displaying wrong art.
http://superuser.com/questions/325488/windows-media-player-12-shows-wrong-cover-art-when-playing

And the worst is a shit internet connection.  Pay $70 a month for a service that don't work most of the time.  Always dropping connection, speed being throttled.  What they are doing is limiting people who want to live in the country and away from the city, is give them shit services for high prices.  They say, if one wants good service, move to the city where cable and DSL is available,  but is never available in the country.  It's TPTB way of attempting to force ALL into the cities.  God forbid if one wants to live in the country.  They'll punish you for it, and make everything as inconvenient as hell.

If didn't have constant work to do online, I wouldn't bother with the internet.  I'm on it for work and staying in touch with family and friends, because NONE of them call.  Ever.

This is not all that I've encountered, but some of it.  You get the gist of the problems the internet now has.  And it's not just us.  It's everywhere and LOTS of people are having the same problems.

The "Spirit of Excellence" has left the building.

Cyber Cafe Privacy Concerns

Dear friends, If you visit a cyber cafe and find any black pin attached to your CPU as shown in the picture, kindly do not use that system. This pin is actually a connection which save all your data you enter in the system.

Thus it is a risk to your privacy over net. Risk to passwords, banking or any data you entered.

It's a hardware keylogger, very powerful that it records each and every action you do in the computer system.

Please *SHARE* this information among your friends and secure them too...
(Thanks to original poster from SYMBIANIZE.COM)

Although I don't understand how it would be on MY computer to begin with, unless the manufacturer originally put it there.

The Great Internet Wars Have Begun

The Great Internet Wars Have Begun

http://www.prisonplanet.com/the-great-internet-wars-have-begun.html



In the video below, we note that the massive protest this week against SOPA and PIPA should not merely be about government and corporate curtailment of freedom of expression on the internet.

It also crucial that it be about resistance against an all-out effort by the elite and their technocrats to turn the internet into an all-encompassing panopticon surveillance and control grid. Contrary to common belief, the internet was not built to be a networked computer system designed to withstand a nuclear war, but as a surveillance and control grid. It was not happenstance that the platform found its way into public use.

In addition to a master networked surveillance tool, the internet is now a weaponized system that will be used to take out enemies of the state, as the Pentagon made abundantly clear following a concerted propaganda campaign hyping the dubious threat of cyber attacks on the power grid and national infrastructure. The system is not designed to attack remote cave dwelling terrorists, as the government would have us believe, but those of us designated as domestic terrorists.

Following the introduction of the internet and more specifically the world wide web in the early 1990s, the technocrats began engineering aspects of the surveillance and control grid that are now increasingly embedded in much of our everyday technology – from “smart phones” that use GPS to track and trace our every move to home appliances networked across the internet and televisions with onboard cameras and microphones in TiVo DVRs and other devices that surreptitiously record our conversations and movement.

GPS is also now a standard “feature” in our cars. So-called black boxes” recording our driving habits will soon be mandatory under the pretense of gathering information for car accident investigations.

Other surveillance tools include so-called smart meters on our homes that monitor electrical usage and provide this data not only to the government but that will be given or sold to a vast array of third parties for commercial purposes.

As previously noted, Google has repeatedly deleted videos unacceptable to the government from its YouTube service and has methodically de-listed alternative news sites from Google News. As a further example of how new technologies facilitate an Orwellian memory hole process where information may disappear without warning, consider Amazon’s arbitrary deletion of purchased books on the Kindle devices of customers. (Significantly, the book in question was Orwell’s classic Nineteen Eighty Four.)

From license plate reading technology to RFID tags embedded in clothes to proposals to have fusion centers track and trace our email (the NSA has done the latter now for years), the surveillance state is already here and growing at an alarming rate. We are quickly entering the world portrayed in Minority Report where an array of devices monitor and surveil our every move.

In March of 2011, Mike Adams described a plan by the Department of Homeland Security “to roll out a new wave of mobile surveillance technologies at train stations, stadiums and streets. These new technologies will track your eye movements, capture and record your facial dimensions for face-recognition processing, bathe you in X-rays to look under your clothes, and even image your naked body using whole-body infrared images.”

All of the efforts of government and corporations to turn the world into a high-tech panopticon – literary, a prison where the inmates are continuously surveilled without their knowledge or consent – is now rolling along at a brisk clip. The internet is at the forefront of that insidious effort.

We are not attempting to dismiss commendable efforts to prevent SOPA and PIPA from becoming law. However, we must realize that the battle to maintain and restore our liberty is like playing a game of Spock’s three-dimensional chess.

It is active and in motion on multiple levels. We must ensure that the technology we consent to use is not weaponized or employed to track and trace our every move. At the same time, it is critical that we work to restore liberties the government has robbed from us under the pretense of saving us from not only phantom terrorists but also from the banker imported scourge of drugs and other invented dangers like man-made global warming.

The great internet wars have begun. It is our responsibility to confront each one decisively and not allow the controllers to divert us down a single path. We must realize that the battle to defeat SOPA and PIPA is part of a larger, more comprehensive fight to resist tyranny in all forms, not simply in Congress where the most obvious efforts appear with theatrical media fanfare.