Post by @cbecker@hci.social

Hey ACM, did you know? You can just give me the file. If you'd spend fewer resources on slopifying the library and more on service delivery, a 600KB PDF wouldn't take so much time to load that I can write an entire toot in the meantime. 😉 #AIslop

A screenshot of the ACM DL struggling to load a single PDF file with less than 600KB while displaying promo text:

Did you know?
You can view the publication scrolling vertically or
horizontally with its pages side by side. — A screenshot of the ACM DL struggling to load a single PDF file with less than 600KB while displaying promo text: Did you know? You can view the publication scrolling vertically or horizontally with its pages side by side.

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Oliver D. Reithmaier

@odr_k4tana@infosec.exchange 26 min. ago

@cbecker it's so cute how they keep pretending those articles are read by swaths of non-researchers/students and journalists. Otherwise I cannot explain how they keep trying to make it more "user-friendly" while effectively worsening the UX for everyone who actually reads these things.

Christoph Becker

@cbecker@hci.social 20 min. ago

@odr_k4tana I'd say this isn't actually about making it user friendly - it's about capturing you in the browser to monitor your activities. #SurveillanceCapitalism

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