How to use a website:

[janpeters@digitalcourage.social]

@maxleibman I also do not bother. If I get greeted with a "allow our 275 Partners" I am out.
It also prevents me from reading many of the links here. However, the good thing is, if the post peaks my interest I will search for it myself and try to find information on a source that does not want my soul. Bonus, I have checked if there is more than one source talking about it.

[ferngirl@det.social]

@maxleibman sadly, this is accurate for too many sites by now.

[skyblitz@mstdn.social]

@maxleibman you forgot the age verification process between 4 and 5

[halbwach@wandzeitung.xyz]

@kuketzblog
Das wird sich nie durchsetzen.

@maxleibman

[negative12dollarbill@techhub.social]

@maxleibman
Don't forget that this:

7. Subscribe to our newsletter.

happens even when you've come directly from the newsletter and

&fromnewsletter=true

is right there in the URL

[dazzr@social.tchncs.de]

@maxleibman You've been enshittified!

[voline@kolektiva.social]

@maxleibman @mick_collins
Retrospectively Gopher was pretty good. No images let alone video ...

[christo_459@mastodon.me.uk]

@maxleibman
Or walk away at the first demand

[theplaguedoc@glitterkitten.co.uk]

@maxleibman
How to use a website:

1. No

[gvlx@masto.pt]

@altlazybear @maxleibman rss?

[donty@mastodon.tetaneutral.net]

@maxleibman People have given up on the challenge of controlling their destiny as they are too busy just surviving.

The internet used to be stuff that anyone could provide and support. Email, chat, web, news, files, search and a whole world of control and interaction.

The corporate world is doing what it does best making things shittier and making us dream smaller and imagine the world can't be more than they offer.

Patently not true but they drip the message in constantly.

[myricagale@mastodon.scot]

@maxleibman I always leave when it requests item 1!

[dasmatus@mastodon.social]

@maxleibman 0. Send your ID bumfuck nowhere.

[sam_bass@mastodon.social]

@maxleibman

ive gotten to when i see a search result that basically leads to something not even passively related to the search term, i will send feedback on the term via the items' drop down menu. duckduck may or may not read it, but it makese feel a little better

[ohmrun@indieweb.social]

@maxleibman
This is a George Carlin bit in the works.

[tylerlwsmith@hachyderm.io]

@maxleibman new step dropping soon: "age" verification

[anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz]

@maxleibman if the website requires any of these steps then it is not the content I was looking for

more websites need to realize how optional they are. there is no shortage of better things to do in this world.

[smallcircles@social.coop]

@maxleibman

1. Get shown intricate cookie dialog.

2. Skip site.

[the_moep@mastodon.de]

@maxleibman
If I have to do 1. I'm usually out. I will not look at ads, no matter what your site does.

[harib_murshidi@mastodon.social]

@maxleibman and if you are accessing the website from some #globalsouth shithole sometimes "Access denied" or we have detected suspicious activity ! 🤬