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Keeping it simple
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There are plenty of things that annoy me when using many
modern web sites (as of 2025). I have tried to build my personal
web site so that it worlks the way I would like other sites to work.
Here is a list of things that I dislike and have tried to avoid
on my site:
- enshittification in all forms
- popups to consent to cookies
- popups to share private information with partners
- popups to sign up for a newsletter
- popups to enable notifications
- popups to create an account
- popups to pay to read entire articles
- popups to log in with a third party
- popups to install a mobile app
- popups to chat with an AI bot
- popups to donate money
- popups to enable third-party cookies
- popups to disable ad blockers
- popups to rate your experience
- popups that don't appear immediately
- popups that can't be immediately dismissed
- cookies
- tracking
- analytics
- telemetry
- personalization
- recommendation engines
- popularity ranking
- engagement optimizations
- third-party code
- LLM slop
- ads
- popup ads
- popup ads when you leave the page
- popup ads when you're idle
- subscriber-only content
- sponsored articles
- paid placement
- advertorials
- partner offers
- upsells of all kinds
- javascript
- single-page rendering
- navigation traps
- gimmicks that prevent opening in new tabs or windows
- gimmicks that force opening in new tabs or windows
- gimmicks that prevent from copying text
- gimmicks that prevent from saving images
- auto-playing videos
- blockchain, cryptocurrencies, NFTs
- metaverse
All you're getting here is some static HTML files with a bit of CSS,
all generated offline with code that I wrote myself. While I haven't
explicitly tried to measure or optimize any of this, I do believe that
my approach reduces client usage on both the server and the client.
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Posted on July 2 2025
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