this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2023
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For sure I don't download PDFs willy-nilly, but also they're really inconvenient. Another thing to scan, open in a separate program. Pass.
As for lemm.ee, I like it because they're generally federated, as far as I can tell and I'm always behind a VPN so I'm not too upset if cloudflare are watching me post. I treat these accounts as disposable, and will create another one in a few months.
As far as convenience goes, I had the same position in the early days of the web. HTML loads faster and was more convenient to interact with. But today’s web is so totally enshitified with blocks, CAPTCHAs, cookie popups, paywalls, broken javascript, dark patterns, etc, that there’s now an inversion whereby PDFs are actually less likely to create a shitty experience. The wait is worth it, vs. the time spent picking through cookie dialogs and whatever popups and garbage that’s rampant now.
I’m surprised lemm.ee doesn’t harass you about using a VPN. Perhaps Cloudflare is unaware of whatever VPN you’re using.
Fuck, you're not wrong about PDFs cutting through a lot of the online bullshit. I don't run a linux system as my daily, perhaps I'd be less reticent about PDFs if I wasn't so concerned about malware.
Sidenote, sorry for kicking off this conversation in such a hostile way. Thanks for not escalating.
No worries. I didn’t downvote it either. It’s borderline threadcrap but I went along with it because I don’t think it really deters chatter about Michael Garcia.