Web page annoyances that I don't inflict on you

this is exactly the sort of idealistic post that appeals to HN and nobody else. i dont have a problem with that apart from when technologists try to take these "back to basics" stuff to shame the substacks and the company blogs out there that have to be more powered by economics than by personal passion.

its -obvious- things are mostly "better"/can be less "annoying" when money/resources are not a concern. i too would like to spend all my time in a world with no scarcity.

the engineering challenge is finding alignments where "better for reader" overlaps with "better for writer" - as google did with doubleclick back in the day.

Most people don't remember, and some have never experienced, the Internet before it became a money grab.

I think a lot of people outside of HN would prefer that Internet way more than what we have now.

The Web has been a money grab since Netscape was went public in 1995.

My first for pay project was enhancing a Gopher server in 1993.