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Let's bring back the webring. (gusbus.space)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Back in the day the best way to find cool sites when you were on a cool site was to click next in the webring. In this age of ailing search engines and confidently incorrect AI, it is time for the webring to make a comeback.

This person has given his the code to get started: Webring

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I love this idea, the back button on browsers feels like it exists because of webrings

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It exists because web browsers used to not have tabs. Nowadays it's useless cause with modern scripted web pages you never properly get back to the site you left

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

then you're visiting websites that are badly coded

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

like lemmy, for example.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

the back button works fine for me here

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Just block JavaScript

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Then the entire browser becomes useless. I couldn't even post this comment without JavaScript.

Edit: I wish a search engine that only showed websites without JavaScript existed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Umatrix is great, you can configure it to automatically allow first party javascript, and if sites still dont work eneable bits until they do them lock those settings so the same bits will be enabled next time you're on that site.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You can do that with NoScript too. Is the Umatrix UI any better, or are there other benefits?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

noscript is like a screwdriver. umatrix is the whole toolbox.

both have their place

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I wish also that THAT search engine also made it so turning on results that have paywalls is a thing you can only have turned on if YOU turn it on

[–] Hammerheart 2 points 2 months ago

Duckduckgo has a no javascript mode.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not useless. I don't use JS. Yeah. Maybe 1/10 websites you have to skip.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How do you even post here without JavaScript?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I use an app, but Im sure one of the front ends doesn't require JS