Why would you do this to us?
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Yeah exactly. A lot of features are like, let's design the website to perfectly suit your device. But then that means they know everything about your device, otherwise they can't design for it. Then, if they know everything about your device, bad actors will abuse that information. So the only solution is going back to shit websites, but nobody wants that, so we just kind of pretend that it's not a problem and compromise as best we can
Don't speak for the lot of us.
I want to go back to websites that were actually just functional websites that did the thing they were designed to do and nothing more.
Most people don't actually want that unfortunately. I agree with you but the numbers don't lie. People love bloated and annoying websites
Are you sure? Because I'd bet that people don't think about it enough to say they love it or hate it. Most people don't understand that the internet doesn't have to be this way. Its our job to enlighten them to that, I think.
i agree with everything besides "it's our job to ..."