14. You close the video that started autoplaying
15. You try to read the content of the site on 20% of your screen because the rest is padding and headers and useless shit
16. You try to understand why your laptop fan has started and your battery is draining at 100% cpu on a text and image on website
17. You manage to read something on the website before your battery drops by 30%. You try to figure out if it’s AI generated or not
18. You’re hit by a paywall

protip: ublock origin has “annoyances” and “cookie banners” lists that aren’t enabled by default. turning them on gets rid of most of these.

also, some people are not aware firefox mobile can also run ublock origin, so that.

You get hit with the Google/Cloudflare captcha because your VPN, privacy extensions, and the fact that you’re using Firefox in general make them think you’re a bot. But actually they’ve already decided you’re definitely a bot and refuse to let you in no matter how many image captchas you solve.

Life hack Re: #4

there was this satirical “web browsing simulator 2025” or something like that where you had to do all those things.
but I don’t remember the exact name and can’t find it with a search engine. Maybe someone else knows what I am talking about.

There are a lot of community-driven websites, but they’re all out SEOed by profit-driven garbage sites.

• You also have to wait 30 seconds to a minute for all the useless javascript to load and get in the way of you trying to find what you are looking for.
• Then you’ll have to dodge an AI chatbot and various buttons for AI features trying to trick you into clicking them.