As someone who has been launching personal projects through the years it's so frustrating to constantly lose the battle against these sites. First mover advantage has been so true in the web that is it is so hard to gain any traction against these behemoths that keep degrading the user experience.

I'm still hopeful that we'll find a way to surface sites that do not succumb to this type of hostile user behavior but that may be naive on my part.

Once those popups started coming up muscle memory took over and I felt like I was on a real website trying to read an important piece of news.

This is a masterpiece. My bp started rising.

I got lost and gave up.

Take a bow :-)

Whenever I want to experience the web as it used to be I’ll run a search on wiby.me or browse neocities.org