Article du 6 mai

« First, right off the bat sites seem to fall into 3 categories:

- Blank white screens (45%)
- Sites with some things but most content doesn't load (50%)
- Sites that still mostly work (extremely rare, maybe 4%)
- Sites that fully work (less than 1%)

Second, I almost always tell a site their own JS is "trusted". That usually allows a page to mostly work, content to fill in,etc.

Next things to break are:
- Login forms
- Contact forms
- Basic button/link interactions

These should work from basic HTML but don't anymore

Third, the vast majority of sites anymore have 5 or more outside (third-party) servers that have JavaScript loading things on them. These seem to be:

- Ad networks
- Analytics
- Debuggers
- Trackers
- Legit services site needs

Fourth, obviously Google dominates the web. It's easy to block google-analytics .com & such. What's harder is things like ReCaptcha, since it loads off of google .com, among other services people use often. The newer versions of that track your movements/clicks all over.

And now we're at a point where it's harder to even just log in to a service without having to also fill out a Google ReCaptcha form. Two issues with this:
- You have to agree to Google's Privacy Policy (despite you not using their service)
- You can't opt out

Fifth, with logging in, they often break. Your data isn't submitted with forms anymore, you have a dead form submitted with JS. The good ones work if you reenable the site's JS. The bad ones work only if you reenable all JS because they pass your login around so much.

Sixth, there's fun things where text boxes don't store their own text anymore. Like I can type in things but the Submit button doesn't turn on because it hasn't realized text was in. JS logs keystrokes to store in variables then fills text box. No JS, no logging...what?!?

Seventh, other fun misadventures happen. For example, I'm locked out of a Microsoft account. Why? Because by the time I figured out all the JS entries to enable from going from visualstudio.com->microsoftonline.com->live.com->microsoft.com->etc., I look like a hacker.

I'm sure there's other things I'm forgetting.

I'm not anti-JavaScript, I'm anti-everything-through-JS. Why? It breaks basic functionality of the web. I can't disable trackers. I can't protect my privacy. And most of all, even things like typing and buttons just quit.

Can we please stop doing ridiculous nonsense with websites that don't need it? You don't need JS to make a button press or JS to make a link work or JS to type text or JS to load all content on a page or... just no.

Developers, stop breaking the web, please.

To end this... I may have to remove this extension in the end and just block more through ublock because the internet is becoming literally more and more unusable and privacy-invading and I hate it. »

« Pour certains jeux (le dernier en date est Red Dead Redemption 2) je dois attendre plusieurs heures avant de m'habituer à l'image et ensuite je me retrouve bien souvent à ne plus la regarder vraiment. Le niveau de détail se fait au détriment de la hiérarchisation de l'information
Je me souviens avoir adoré la chasse au trésor dans le premier mais l'avoir complètement négligé dans le 2e opus parce que les infos sur les cartes étaient beaucoup trop vagues et les paysages non identifiables.
Bienvenue dans mon TED talk : le photo réalisme est une plaie arrêtez ça tout de suite. »

Je me faisais une réflexion similaire ya pas si long. Des jeux plus réalistes qui se veulent plus immersifs mais des marqueurs partout à en vomir (pts sur les maps, surlignage d'éléments du décor, etc) qui finissent par casser cette immersion.

EDIT : Ça me revient, mais je me faisais la réflexion avec la vision façon "thermique" de Rise of the Tomb Raider (et qu'on peut retrouver dans d'autres jeux).