ITT: Websites that have objectively made the Internet a worse place

4chan

Any for profit website.

anontalk

>>61555103
buzzfeed
reddit
/b/
cnn
kickstarter
facebook

Deviantart

>>61555173
you forgot tum/b/lr and twitter, biggest bastions of online hate ever.

youtube after google bought it

>>61555173
facebook was rather the deathblow which dragged all normies on it

Before that they maybe read some mails and the newspapers and that was all

>>61555103
first it was the ads
then it was the anti-adblockers

especially for the big domains
like, fuck you, man
you have more money than your readerbase; why do you need my adblocker off

>>61555220
also before google bought it

>>61555103
>Turn off my adblock
>Virus ads appear
Who the fuck conditioned people to think that site's okay?

>>61555118
fpbp

>>61555361
It was cool when it was a dating service. It's original design

>>61555400
>Who the fuck conditioned people to think that site's okay?

No one thinks it's okay, but the shitheads who use to get money from their download links don't give a fuck.

>>61555301
How do you think they made their money in the first place? Idiot

>>61555400
The money.

>>61555118
/thread

>>61555103

Cloudflare
Google captcha
responsive website design

>>61555103
imageshack
photobucket

Ad.fly wasn't the first service of its kind. Just one of the more popular ones.

Also, any monetization of the web only increases the possibilities of it. If there was no money to be made, no one would care about it.

>>61555209
This was fine until got infected with sjws, furry fags and what not...

>>61555173
Buzzfeed actually has good article though.

>>61556837
I love those ''mind bending'' ''you won't believe" Buzzfeed articles. What would humanity do w/o it.

Any site that won't load without enabling javascript

I don't see a problem with adfly, it lets developers get money out of otherwise free projects

>>61555103
xda-developers
apple.com
goatsex

Cloudflare

Facebook

>>61556926
>try out script blocker
>Internet is basically unusable

>>61555103
Adobe flash

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>>61556837
>Buzzfeed actually has good article though.

>>61557430
>Top 10 Baits You Won't Believe You've Taken

>>61555118
Correct

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>>61555118
Fuck...

>>61555103
i actually can't think of anything worse than this piece of shit

it also has a million clones

>>61555103
Vine
Tumblr
Faceberg
Musical.ly
Buzzfeed
Jewtube
Any website that ends with .in

http://www.alexa.com/topsites

>>61555103
facebook

>>61558594
>>Any website that ends with .in
how about any website that ends with .io

>>61555173
/b/ stopped being newfag academy long time ago bud.
Normies go straight for the jugular nowadays.

>>61559601
That too

>>61559646
What exactly is the jugular in this metaphor?

>>61556926
This

>>61559991
other more mature boards.

Blockadblock.com

search engines
social media sites
every site that forces you to enable js to view it

AOL.com

Facebook and clickbait sites.

Impartial about Reddit. The site and most communities are absolute cancer, but some "niche" subreddits are actually a decent place for discussion.

>>61560787
not a website but lately (as in the past 5 or 6 years) it is smartphones

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Not just the internet. They made the whole world a worse place.

>>61555173
>reddit
because every single site having their shitty drupal forum and poor credentials security with "hack from russians" every other month was so much better

medium.com

>Ctrl+f
>"Pinterest"
>0 results
Apply yourselves

Pintrest

It seems when i install vivaldi the default search engine is yahoo and its default picture search redirects to pintrest. God damn that site is trash...

>>61562759

lol ! i litterally posted >>61562809 a few microseconds after (You)

>>61562710
Tiny subreddits are fine but Reddit is absolute cancer.

>reference contest for maximum upboats
>heavily censored news-section
>subreddits revolve around fanboyism, all criticism (even valid) gets downboated and marked as spam
>sjw ceo defending censorship

>>61562928
You seem to be too knowledgeable about Reddit, go back.

>>61556837
Top 5 buzzfeed good articles reimagined as disney princesses

>>61555103
Softonic
Sourceforge
Github

>>61555502
Whatever dying business model they sprouted from in the first place Newspapers, Cable TV etc. , Idiot

>>61555103
Tinypic
Imageshack
Photobucket
Any other shitty image hosting.

>>61556837
Which one is it?

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>0 results
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pit1QhQK6u0

>>61562809
>>61562759
How do you even use Pintrest? I really don't understand that website at all. Is it social media, or what?

>>61565022

yeaha pintrest is an image hosting platform where the social media functions and tie ins are considered more important than actually hosting any images

it wont let you do shit without an account its just vomit inducing trash

>>61555118
cant refute

FUCK cloudfare
FUCK google
FUCK facebook
FUCK leddit
FUCK 4chan
FUCK 8ch
FUCK almost every media source on all sides, including breitbart

It doesn't matter though, if it's not them it's someone else.

YOUTUBE AND ALL OF IT'S CLONES

CONTENT WAS SO MUCH BETTER WHEN YOU HAD TO ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT THE FUCK YOU'RE DOING TO MAKE OR VIEW IT.

>>61557108
>ddos attacks are extremely easy to perform today and get your site terminated by the hosting company so it doesn't affect other customers
>ddos protected hosting easily costs 400$+ a month
>cloudflare cockblocks 99% of kiddie ddos attempts
How is it bad exactly?

>>61555118
>Website that has effectively not changed in its 14 years of operation
>bad
4chan is a goddamn glowing beacon of good web development, MySQL errors be damned

http://swfchan.net/collections/f_classics--231/
There you are now an /f/ oldfag

>>61556671
>If there was no money to be made, no one would care about it.
But that's wrong. Money is a means to an ends, not the other way around, silly jew. If people care about something they're willing to spend money on it. Your way of thinking is poisonous and sickening, to be quite frank.

>>61555118
This would have been funny and edgy maybe 5, 6 years ago. If anything the internet has made 4chan a worse place

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>>61564778
>>61556195

>>61567228
Cloudflare also hosts all booters. Meaning they play both sides and keep their businuess running nicely by protecting the ddosfags.

>>61556091
HTML is inherently responsive, and that's a good thing.

any social media website

>>61556091
>>61557108
>>61565391
So whats wrong about cloudflare?

>>61555103
>not knowing javascript code to bypass adf.ly wait timer

kek

>>61567799
cloudflare is the biggest SSL/TLS mitm attacker ever, and nobody cares

>>61567516
inherent HTML responsive (content naturally fits browser width) != designfag responsive (totally change layout and/or styling above/below certain viewport sizes

>>61555103
I feel like I need a more mature answer after seeing you post adfly. I was first thinking of something like facebook.

>>61567847
teach me senpai

>>61567847
>Not using an userscript to bypass it automatically

LMAOing @ ur life

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>>61567928
You bet your ass I'm not going to let a 1920px filling horizontal navigation stick around on a vertical phone. Hamburger slide in menus are a meme but it's functional and built specifically to solve a problem instead of just letting your shitty website display incorrectly because what everyone else does is simply too popular. If you think the right should be allowed on a phone you should get the fuck off this board.

>>61555103
pinterest

>>61555103
>downloads for piracy
>adfly

Literally making money on something that is not yours to begin with

Good thing anti-adfly scripts exist

>>61555103
facebook is on its way to making the world a worse place. The internet is just fine.

>>61555103
Netflix

Probably the primary reason net neutrality is a thing that needs to be discussed

>>61567263
that's not what he said

>>61555148
did they get rid of the filter for that site?

>>61555103
Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and any other social media website.
9gag, Buzzfeed, Reddit and other "meme sharing" sites where normies reside.
Any "news" media site for spewing biased bullshit propaganda (Huffpost, Brietbart, CNN, Washpost...)
Youtube, for allowing lazy bedroom slacktivists to make a living off rambling into a camera.
Any community funding sites (kikestarter etc.)
4chan for being home to a bunch of pedo weeabo fags
Dating sites, including Tinder, for inflating the female ego. Same goes for Instagram, Snapchat and similars.
DevianArt, for hosting the absolute worst drawings I have ever seen.
Google, for monopolizing search engines and pretty much everything they touch.

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All of those mobile website popups

You know, those who redirect you, make your phone vibrate and unable to close

That's what happens when adblockers aren't really a mainstream thing in smartphones, pure insanity and greed

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>>61555103
All of them.

patreon
kickstarter

>>61555400
I agree. The only people the ads exploit are those who are vulnerable to these sorts of things, who tend to be elderly, or young kids, or people with weak minds. Disappointing, but money can make people do anything.

Facebook for basically creating the modern social media phenomenom, made it a norm for the masses to share real life information instead of thinking security first, created a culture where literally everyone is encouraged to constantly spout retarded shit and think narcissisticly highly of themselves, and made it with Google an ok thing to stalk your users in an unfathomable scale.

Modern news sites for displaying nothing but a simple html page with an article's worth of plaintext, yet requiring thousands of lines of code and dozens of different JS scripts for each page load.

Any web site that falls in love with with technology, and instead of making it simple and lightweight, fills it with fancy yet redundant scripts and features that require a decent cpu to even run, and has the size in megabytes even if disregarding any possible pictures.

Any site that requires you to register in order to browse.

Pinterest
You cant search something on google without getting a bunch of useless links of pinterest

>>61559646
Probably because /b/ is fucking "how can wite bois evin cumpeet?"-shit tier cuckold threads that won't be deleted but regular threads with effort will be after like 2 minutes

>>61569500
THISSSSSS

>>61569500
I dont know what Pinterest even is.
Never used it but its a hurdle to get a picture from there.

Twitch
Tipee
Instagram
Facebook
Buzzfeed
Goldenmoustache
Tumblr
Blacked
Twitter

>>61561434

:-)

>>61555118
this
this place has ruined my already shitty life

>>61562928

With it's up and downboat system it's living proof that western type democracy is failed system. It's dictatorship of mediocrity.

Facebook

>>61557101
why XDA ? It's nice for custom roms.

>>61559601
>privacytools.io
>bad

???

>>61555103
Wikia

>>61559601
Many contenders.

>>61569711
Custom roms or just rice?

>>61556837
You won't believe the article I read on Buzzfeed today

>ctrl+f
>upworthy
>phrase not found

>>61556807
so like one day after launch?

Any site that blocks you from reading for any reason, especially:
>having adblock
>being banned
>not having an account

>>61570098
>not having an account
bugmenot.com

>>61570112
In my experience every site worth its salt blocks all bugmenot accounts

>>61570175
its useful for forums that usually share links.
I find it very helpful for downloading stuff.

livejournal
the root of tumblr

>>61568868
/thread

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4chan.org/pol/

>>61569867
I don't know. I'm not creative enough to take proper time in order to rice my phone. Custom roms are fine if you ignore the community

>>61571358
boards.4chan.org/pol/

Drudge Report

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>>61556091
>Cloudflare
>Google captcha
These.

You fuckers should all know that, why did that post come so late?

>>61556195
>imageshack
>photobucket
These as well. They basically killed off every forum that had tutorials with screenshots.

Facebook and YouTube as they are walled gardens. Somebody might have had the same problem with his computer as you do. You search for the issue but don't find it anymore, as it's not on some public forum but some proprietary californian Zuckerberg site.
That fucking sucks.
Same applies to YouTube. So many tutorials, people discussing in the comments but you cannot search it.

You will never find solutions if you can't even search.

reddit as it lulled anons into giving up their anonymity. RIP in shit, dirtbags.

Google, but only because they claim it's acceptable to have one account for everything.
Fucking cocksuckers.

>>61556837
This cat saw a dog...you won't fucking believe what happens next!

>>61569679
That's not the point, and noone cares

>>61567881
>cloudflare is the biggest SSL/TLS mitm attacker ever, and nobody cares
cloudflare doesnt even try to act like its not an nsa honeypot

>>61567390
This. Reverse effect.

>>61555400
People don't realize there's an alternative. The other day I was with my brother trying to watch a movie on his laptop plugged into the tv. For some reason he streamed it, just getting the websites to work at all was a hassle because there was a nonstop barrage of pop ups and ads. The entire screen was filled with ads and everywhere you clicked would cause two or three more links to open. There were so many his entire laptop basically froze, it took a few minutes to register a click, trying to change to another tab resulted in massive lag. I kept telling him he should get an adblocker, and that maybe the reason things were so slow was all the ads. He agreed but I could tell he didn't quite realize how fucked it was, he just accepted that as the way the internet works. I mentioned it a few more times and he finally said "I don't know how to install an adblocker". I wanted to tell him it's just a few clicks and doesn't take some huge software install but I didn't want to seem like some elitist snob, and I didn't want to do it for him; as a rule I avoid ever using other people's computers because I don't want to accidently stumble onto their porn or whatever might be in their history/search history/tab suggestions or whatever.

In the end it turned out he had the entire movie downloaded anyways, not sure why he didn't just go to that in the first place

This thread is full of pointless, stupid knee-jerk replies. I guarantee you goatfuckers in training would be missing YouTube or whatever and whining about it if it shut down tomorrow.

>>61557101
>hating goatse

>>61572247
>wahh I can't watch my shill videos
Anyone who would miss youtube is part of the problem.

>>61572247
>people don't reply properly
>does the same by saying shutting down a website is appearanly the same as making the web a worse place

>>61572279
If a website is making the web a worse place, it follows that shutting it down would be an improvement.

first post should be
>any popular website
/thread

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Good Riddance.

>>61555103
somethingawful

reddit

tell that tose guys literally breathing down my neck while casually wandering the interwebs 'unprotected'. theres a shit ton of money in it.

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>>61556837

>>61572270
How can we solve this problem?
How can we cure web addicts?

all of them

>>61555103
http://4chan.lolipr0n.on.nimp/

>>61556837
This is a good post. It's so objectively false that I would never have even thought to post it. Yet you did, and we all replied.

>>61568154
>trying to one up by using userscript

LMAO @ UR LIFE

>>61555118
I legitimately think 4chan has gravely altered the course of humanity.

>>61556837
Gawker has a good article, too. One good article.