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Anybody else find the internet (web) frustrating to use recently? Things don't work half the time. Pages not load. Error here, error there.

I somewhat blame my janky network setup and attempts at enforcing privacy. But it is getting more and more bad. Perhaps I look like a robot too much.

Anyone else find it seems to be crumbling?

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[-] supafuzz@hexbear.net 20 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Yeah, also seeing more and more broken stuff. I assume my privacy enforcement mechanisms are making me look like an unauthorized AI scraper or something

Most sites that won't let me in are doing me a favor, really

[-] BobDole@hexbear.net 10 points 6 days ago

reddit-logo blocks my VPN which has been very helpful in never going on that hell site

[-] supafuzz@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago

They rolled back that thing where they wouldn't let you visit the mobile website to make you switch to the app. That was a beautiful week

[-] hotspur@hexbear.net 11 points 6 days ago

Yeah get weird stuff all the time, but also I’m using a pie hole and have other blockers and trackers and things being blocked, so I assume most of the time it’s that and the cost of doing business.

[-] bigpharmasutra@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago

If you're using a VPN that's likely the reason. All the AI detection bots they have running have really crippled VPN usage. Fucking cloudflare.

[-] imogen_underscore@hexbear.net 9 points 6 days ago

youtube is incredibly slow now but i think it is the invisible battle between the ads and ublock origin

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 4 points 6 days ago

Large sites have been around for a while now. Technical debt perhaps?

[-] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

My internet speeds up/down are supposedly getting faster but browsing isn't getting any speedier


[-] Ophrys@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago

Gigabit fiberoptic speeds but each site is now 1,5Gb of javascript

this post was submitted on 19 May 2026
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