Browsing the Web in 2021

I browse the Web on a number of new and older devices.

My most effective strategy is to abandon quickly sites which make demands or purposely inconvenience me.

It's just like people and businesses. I wouldn't hang out with someone rude and obnoxious. I wouldn't keep working with a company whose practices were questionable in the past.

So why would I go out of my way to read some typically low-value content from a resource designed to be hostile or which tells me my browser isn't good enough?

I wouldn't. I would just close the tab and eventually remember not to open links from there anymore.

Whenever I adopted this no-tolerance strategy, the Web became infinitely more pleasant and welcoming. At the same time, the average quality of content I get has improved dramatically.

I think there is a correlation between shitty content and shitty site construction.

Using an Ad blocker and whitelisting websites you want to support is the only viable way to browse the Internet now.

For those for whom Twitter is also unbrowsable:

https://nitter.kavin.rocks/karpathy/status/14358272402861097...

Trying to follow this link in w3m yielded this:

> JavaScript is not available.

> We’ve detected that JavaScript is disabled in this browser. Please enable JavaScript or switch to a supported browser to continue using twitter.com. You can see a list of

> supported browsers in our Help Center.

And that about sums up browsing the web in 2021.

On a small mobile it’s worse because then I have to basically avoid tapping any ads and thats much harder than using a mouse on a computer.