I find it ironic how people talk with a high hand about "Google dying", "Internet dying" and "AI eating everything" and then I open their website and it forces me to waste 10 seconds as cloudflare "checks" my browser, then reloads, checks it again, finally lets me through and then I end up on a useless page because the scroll is broken - thanks javascript. Then I need to hit F5 and finally I can read in peace.
Websites like these are the very reason nobody reads the web anymore. A clanker will give me an answer within 5 seconds. Old web used to load within 1 second, now it takes 10 to 15 and sometimes even >30 seconds until fully loaded. Using CF as a protection against LLMs is not even a valid excuse because CF gives your website's scraped contents in 1 click to anyone willing to pay. These websites waste insane amounts of time. Everybody defaults to AI because nobody is willing to deal with annoying browser checks, cookie popups, subscription letters, captchas and especially scroll hijacking. I may be a bad person, and I'm not even pro-AI, but if "thewalrus" goes offline I won't be missing it, because I regretted the time I wasted fighting their broken navigation.
Websites like these are the very reason nobody reads the web anymore. A clanker will give me an answer within 5 seconds. Old web used to load within 1 second, now it takes 10 to 15 and sometimes even >30 seconds until fully loaded. Using CF as a protection against LLMs is not even a valid excuse because CF gives your website's scraped contents in 1 click to anyone willing to pay. These websites waste insane amounts of time. Everybody defaults to AI because nobody is willing to deal with annoying browser checks, cookie popups, subscription letters, captchas and especially scroll hijacking. I may be a bad person, and I'm not even pro-AI, but if "thewalrus" goes offline I won't be missing it, because I regretted the time I wasted fighting their broken navigation.