Jun 28, 2015 11:17 AM
(This post was last modified: Jun 28, 2015 12:00 PM by stryder.)
I don't know if everyone else suffers from this pet peeve, but at one point I was glad to see the death of Splash screens.
Splash screens were an early internet phenomena when most peoples connections were done via phone dial-up and were under 14.4kbps. They signified that a site was loading and that the amount of data was large enough that it would be cache to be formatted, and in the meantime you'd stare at the rather plain splash screen while waiting.
In this day and age though most of the internet speeds are fast enough to load up the most basic of websites, so splash screens aren't necessarily. Sure on occasion a public announcement or a newsletter popup might be acceptable as long as it's time critical (It's only there for a short duration) however with the advent of plugins for social networks, more and more of the internet is becoming obsessed with the "Sign up before you see the content" splash screen.
While it can be considered that such site operators literally want you to identify who you are and click things that prove you aren't some automated robot scouring a website list, they break the flow and continuity of the internet as a whole. The entire ideology of the internet was the common capacity to freely share and obtain information and such splash screens literally undermine the very foundation of that ideology.
For that reason I'm starting to Ban sites that use this "In your face" and "Sign up with facebook to reveal more" method of business and I wouldn't be surprised if I'm not the only one that will spend less than five seconds either pressing back on the browser, or when it's been disabled by a website through it's engineered coding (yet another peeve) just closing down the window entirely.
The method I use for banning a website is to access the HOSTS file on my windows system located in the folder :
And adding a line with the canonical domain (subdomains should be additional entries to the main domain) and Localhost loopback within the 127.#.#.# IP range
example:
(The same thing can be achieved with various programs that alter the file like Spybot Search & Destroy etc)
Splash screens were an early internet phenomena when most peoples connections were done via phone dial-up and were under 14.4kbps. They signified that a site was loading and that the amount of data was large enough that it would be cache to be formatted, and in the meantime you'd stare at the rather plain splash screen while waiting.
In this day and age though most of the internet speeds are fast enough to load up the most basic of websites, so splash screens aren't necessarily. Sure on occasion a public announcement or a newsletter popup might be acceptable as long as it's time critical (It's only there for a short duration) however with the advent of plugins for social networks, more and more of the internet is becoming obsessed with the "Sign up before you see the content" splash screen.
While it can be considered that such site operators literally want you to identify who you are and click things that prove you aren't some automated robot scouring a website list, they break the flow and continuity of the internet as a whole. The entire ideology of the internet was the common capacity to freely share and obtain information and such splash screens literally undermine the very foundation of that ideology.
For that reason I'm starting to Ban sites that use this "In your face" and "Sign up with facebook to reveal more" method of business and I wouldn't be surprised if I'm not the only one that will spend less than five seconds either pressing back on the browser, or when it's been disabled by a website through it's engineered coding (yet another peeve) just closing down the window entirely.
The method I use for banning a website is to access the HOSTS file on my windows system located in the folder :
Code:
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etcAnd adding a line with the canonical domain (subdomains should be additional entries to the main domain) and Localhost loopback within the 127.#.#.# IP range
example:
Code:
example.com 127.0.0.1
www.example.com 127.0.0.1
more.subdomains.example.com 127.0.0.1(The same thing can be achieved with various programs that alter the file like Spybot Search & Destroy etc)