I totally hate this modern web experience.
!!!RANT INCOMING!!! Just recently I was looking at a wiki style page and wanted to see how they did their div layouts (so I can move from using tables - which work wonderfully without tons of css for laying out data). My intention was duplicating it. I knew it was bad, but I didn't just grasp how bad it actually was until I looked at the referenced assets.
836KB for 1 CSS, 160K for another other CSS, plus 9 other CSS files I didn't bother with, 600K for a javascript library, another 150K for some other ad tracking javascript library (thank god I have scripting turned off!). I was nearly at a 2MB download before I even got to the html, and images.
When your bloat far exceeds the content on your page (including images), you have really gone wrong. Also you've done something wrong when nothing loads with scripts off (93% of sites I have attempted to visit -
Yes, at one point I did count).
Anyway this is why I always keep old versions an use old versions over the newest stuff. Remember in the early 2000s when Adobe first moved all their programs to the 'cloud' such as authentication for photoshop? Remember when Adobe had that masssssssssive licensing server outage that resulted in so many people not being able to use Photoshop? Yea, I do. I made a lot of money off that "fiasco" because I still had Photoshop 5 LE, Gimp, & MS paint and I was able to get people results if they didn't require extremely complex things. A lot of times not the
exact results they wanted, but results they could compromise on, and could use to deliver. I was insanely busy for 2 weeks, even after the whole "fiasco" was corrected. Why? My software just worked when everyone else was crippled by someone else's computer. Why is it in the mobile world where we are expected to be mobile, are now extremely locked down? Lets not forget programs where you need to "deactivate" it before uninstalling or you lose that ""unrecoverable"" "seat". Oh god I hope my computer doesn't die from a massive hardware failure such as getting dropped, or a battery shorting out and starting a fire. BlueIris... Melodyne... You're not cheap, and I'm looking at you.
How long until Windows home turns to subscription? How long until all your work is done in an extremely bloated browser that eats memory because "its there to use". The browser will become your OS. Also, don't forget newer browser versions are using their own DNS servers ignoring the system's DNS servers and throwing constant
if you turn that "feature" off - if you can turn that off. Welcome to your new sandbox. Its 1" deep with coarse sand that doesn't work well with playing in the sand. Here's your crappy sand toys. You will like it and pay for it because its your only option. Welcome to the modern internet.
*sigh*