What Using The Internet Is Like Today

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[@elgato_dagoat]

bro is first

[@shriveborn9422]

Let’s goooo! Bespoke post moment

[@treefrogg]

[@lovepuddingmybeagle]

Bespoke post is TIGHT

[@thesteveteam1753]

Heheheha

[@thesmugroup]

This is *exactly* what using the internet is like these days. It’s no wonder that elderly parents/grandparents are so confused and have such problems navigating real vs scam websites.

[@benvoliothefirst]

If only real web sites were as easy to get into as scam ones...

[@imperiumoccidentis7351]

He didn't even mention the massively bloated and over-designed websites that look prettier than are actually functional, and take way too long to load, or the pop up that asks for your email for their shitty newsletter, or the pop up telling you to disable your adblock (sometimes optionally for some reason?), or the fact that the content is covered up by a shit ton of ads, or that every result you get on search engines is just corporate advertising and government propaganda, and sometimes they show a pop up demanding that you pay or donate to see that shit, and that speech on social media is now insanely restrictive and you get shadow-banned for posting wrongthink. The internet fucking sucks now.

[@dr.loomis4221]

That's exactly why he made the video....

[@seamillo]

@@imperiumoccidentis7351 Or that 90% of places you sign in to add you to 3 different newsletters without even asking and 20% of those don't have a working unsubscribe link

[@sandrosliske]

To be fair they have had atleast 20 years to get used to it.

[@JanStrojil]

If using the internet in 2023 includes Ryan’s videos, I’m ok with whatever else we have to put up with.

[@frezywizard]

This comment sounds so gay

[@Jonasaurus7]

Wholesome

[@ScottGimpel]

That is such a kind thing to say, I appreciate the kindness personally!!! 😂😂

[@milesrichardson6022]

Ya, except my soul, that’s still mine.

[@evanepic3599]

no it doesn't, your mind is just in the sewer, not even in the gutter, in the sewer@@frezywizard

[@theunnamedaccount4009]

The saddest bit about this is that the data we lose isn't usually because of our own incompetence, but of the companies' willingness to give it away

[@davidwuhrer6704]

Also because of those companies' incompetence. Good IT security costs money for the sheer number of people who are just going to tell you not to use anything by Cisco, Intel, or Microsoft. It is much cheaper to hire the minimum of IT staff to play compliance theater and buy the equipment from the friendly consultants you have tax-deductible lunch at the brothel with. Maybe an intrusion detection system or two, cloud hosting, a host of payment processors, and of course a reverse proxy service that has more downtime than your Docker containers. So -if- when something goes wrong it isn't your fault, you've been compliant with all CYA requirements, and increasing the attack surface and the number of moving parts is just good economic sense. (Everything costs more and takes longer, plus there is zero resilience, but think of the synergy effects of having fewer direct employees!)

[@santos8468]

​@@davidwuhrer6704"Brothel"?

[@davidwuhrer6704]

@@santos8468 Sorry, I meant bordello.

[@ennesshay5040]

'''give''' it away ?

[@johnhostetler2167]

Yeah, if any app or website asks for you to accept their privacy policy try actually reading it lol the privacy policy isn't there to keep you safe it's so they can legally gather every bit of information on you and sell it to undisclosed third parties, and when I say every bit of your information I really mean every bit of your information that has ever existed on the internet and the privacy policy even gives them access to your camera and microphone and they can use your face,image or voice for whatever they want, the funniest part about this video is Ryan is all worried about a data breach when they're already gathering and selling all of his information

[@RosieWolf]

Normally these types of sketches use comedic exaggeration but the worst part about this is that everything is true (except for the secret agent part haha)

[@CigarDoug]

Clearly you haven't been to the really cool websites yet.

[@lolliii5477]

one day on 2024, the secret agent thing will be real... *why is internet safety a wasrte of time for me, and is it useless?*

[@benjaminwatt2436]

Do you go to websites where they require you to go to a guy on the corner of the street?

[@FelipeKana1]

(For now...)

[@josephrittenhouse5839]

...yet

[@sting-lf5nn]

Using Internet in 2023 is not easy, definitely an inconvenience!

[@lincolnlane6763]

Everything is now so long and complicated, just to do what seems like the simplest thing!

[@mariusvanc]

But clicking on traffic lights is TIGHT!

[@stephenbaber1547]

Hi, hello

[@johnsterizer]

That's the thing from the other show!!!!!

[@justingoldstein1577]

See whatcha did there💩

[@nintengy64]

I told the website that I wanted all the cookies, and I wasn't sent any. I was expecting a tasty treat, but I only got my data stolen.

[@happmacdonald]

You should.. you shoulda asked the street corner guy to give ya tha cookies 😑

[@Vote_By_Mail]

I was so relieved that he didn't make a joke like this in the video.

[@mr.martinez6932]

See, you were thinking "cookies" and they were thinking "C0Ok13$"

[@MaximeLafreniere433]

Biggest crime of the century... They owe us billions of cookies and we want them!

[@nintengy64]

@@MaximeLafreniere433 Indeed. We need them!

[@joewilliams-un8vu]

I’m surprised he wasn’t bombarded with ads as soon as the website actually let him in.

[@scienceface8884]

No no no: first the website scolds him for using an adblocker, THEN he turns it off and 7 different 10-minute long video ads eat the entire screen while playing at maximum volume.

[@joewilliams-un8vu]

@@scienceface8884 Makes sense.

[@dawnmoore9122]

especially the big pop-up "Sign up for our newsletter!" or the smaller "We would like to send you notifications" ones.

[@galla153xd]

u forgot the: -disable Adblock notifications -popup, banner and autoplay video ads -the site design that changes every, approximately, 52.367seconds -subscription/plan/account upgrade notifications -the ads for their desktop version of the app/site -the ads for the mobile version of the site/app -the banner that takes up 90% of your screen that asks if u want to open it in the mobile app -the content itself... getting through all of the above, just to be dissapointed in humanity once more and closing the site right after (because of the crap people post on social media for example)

[@sumpop420]

Always such a hilarious yet devastatingly accurate indictment of the world today with every one of these!

[@xSIJUx]

people watching on a playstation be like 👁👄👁

[@piemuggs]

Is that really what people be like? The ones with the PlayStation thing you mentioned, is that what they be like, or are you just sayin’ that?

[@piemuggs]

And if so, why do they be like that? Do you have an answer yet, or is that just an observation you’ve made in your journey here….on Earth?

[@xSIJUx]

@@piemuggs When you come back to earth, look up to what happened to everyone's PSN accounts a week or so ago. Same as the final punchline of the video. "Massive data breach"

[@piemuggs]

Ahhh, so that’s why they be like that, like what you said

[@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworth]

Was really hoping it'd end with Ryan realizing he clicked on the wrong website.

[@TheJunky228]

or a full page ad followed by a notice that he's trying to view paid content and needs to sign up for a subscription, where 30 days is outrageous and 1 year is still outrageous but pretty cheap per-month

[@MichaelIreland]

Or it's an article that was clearly written by AI that says the same thing over and over in different ways - with perfect grammar & spelling 😂.

[@Adraeth]

I was expecting a "We still don't have any information about that specific thing" type news article after a very much bait title.

[@CosmicAggressor]

What are you the devil?

[@malomodo]

I was expecting a picture of a cat and 95% of the screen are ads.

[@spacecaptain9188]

There might be fewer breaches of privacy if it weren't treated like a sellable commodity. How about businesses aren't allowed to collect information they don't actually need to provide the service or product they claim to be selling to us? Can't steal info they haven't collected in the first place!

[@AxelHenx]

that is using logic, can't have that

[@onkelpappkov2666]

What an ignorant thing to say. How am I going to make money selling the data -I steal from you- that you willingly hand over to me if I'm not legally allowed to -steal it- be willingly given your data? Totally unrelated, but if you want to continue this discussion, I'll need your name, address, birth date, social security, credit card and phone number and the names and professions of your parents.

[@MaddoBatto]

Can you even imagine the ads, the paywalls, the everything everyone would be ramming down our throats (even more than usual) in lieu of selling data to supplement income??

[@thegoldenatlas753]

​@@MaddoBattoyou do realize ads thrive *because* they sell that data right? Ads wouldn't be profitable enough.

[@neolexiousneolexian6079]

You just described the idea behind the GDPR.

[@canadiannomad2330]

Yep, the ending is basically how I feel about most of the BS they have you go through just to put your information more at risk.

[@dr.braxygilkeycruises1460]

Right after the *banana* password, I said, "The only thing missing is the company-wide data breach." And then...Ryan George!!! I love that dude!! 🤗🥰🤣😅😂

[@KinseyTaylor-gm4lg]

I know, Right?! I can’t imagine how this dude keeps coming up with new video ideas, too. 😂

[@benjaminwatt2436]

@@KinseyTaylor-gm4lg The ending was super predictible.

[@KinseyTaylor-gm4lg]

@@benjaminwatt2436 Ok.

[@rynothealbinoryno]

@@benjaminwatt2436only to super smart geniuses like you.

[@pennclick]

The website didn’t ask him to accept the terms of service, that’s gonna hurt the website legally

[@Lucifronz]

Nah, tons of sites just say "by using this site you accept the terms of service".

[@user-jp7tw3sd3x]

Terms of Service are self-enforcing, as if you violate them, they stop providing you a service.

[@SpykeMH]

Probably already accepted them when he made his account. He clearly already had one.

[@LyfaLeeZhure_DavidShawn]

Accepting the "terms of service" without reading can lead to being part of a Human Cent-Ipad.

[@KaijinD]

Ryan does it again. All of the frustrations in one satisfying yet aggravating exchange. The explosion of two factor authentication is what gets me. I know I should live in mortal fear of someone logging into my recipe book, but I am really not all that concerned about it.

[@onkelpappkov2666]

It's a bit less about preventing unwanted access than it is about getting your phone number. Damn, I should try that trick with the ladies. **eyebrow dance**

[@jondw]

reminds me of how I got the Microsoft authentication app because their password nonsense was driving me insane. turns out it requires more security on my phone than my banking app. making sure no one else is playing my Minecraft apparently is more series than my actual money apparently

[@tylertyndal3423]

The worst is the captchas where it asks for a motorcycle or something so you click every square the motorcycle touches but it doesn't work, so then you only pick boxes with a significant amount of motorcycle in them but that doesn't work either

[@tobiasL1991]

"Someone tried to log into you account", "well yeah that was me" Man that had me on the floor laughing!

[@RorikH]

It's also weird because you can... delete those emails. So a hacker could too.

[@Slackow]

@@RorikHa hacker doesn't necessarily have access to your email though

[@laurencefraser]

@@RorikH The point in those e-mails is for when it Wasn't you, so you know something's going on and you need to change your password, or contact customer support, or whatever. If it Was you, just deleting the e-mail is the expected response. For a hacker to delete those e-mails they have to have also got into the e-mail account they were sent to... and you may notice that the services that provide an e-mail account Really want you to give them a Different e-mail address to send such messages (as well as 'i forgot my password' related e-mails) to. It's kind of the least problematic part of the whole thing, really.

[@adiahaalexander9359]

It had me on the floor crying, seriously it's so frustrating nowadays😭

[@vitmir9099]

"I didn't know that!"

[@vailpcs4040]

So painfully true. But you forgot the part where the pop up asks you if you want the newsletter!

[@kydelvetus642]

And if you say no, they still send you the newsletter

[@sidhackney8831]

And the no option is in white 4 point text

[@verenabecker2724]

And push notifications.

[@Tjs736]

You have to uncheck the box to opt out of the newsletter but you’re probably going to get it anyway

[@nahor88]

Don't forget the part where they offer you 15% off for subscribing, and even if you click "don't send me promotional content", you get spammed by it anyways.

[@aflockofconnivingmagpies3490]

I remember when the internet used to be a repository of information so endless, vast and easily accessible that we used to joke about ever needing to go to a library or school to learn about stuff. We used to joke about going to the 2nd page of google even, because we didn't ever need to.

[@steveshay5364]

This is the only channel where I’m glad to see a sponsored video, it’s like getting two skits in one

[@dawnmoore9122]

Terrible Writing Advice too!

[@sadraghorbani1468]

I was so close to going outside or reading a book but Ryan uploaded a video so I'll have to binge watch the whole channel for the fifth time I guess.

[@lincolnlane6763]

Not you guess. You mean, you decided 😂

[@adiahaalexander9359]

Ooh thank god I'm not alone in that😂

[@TitularHeroine]

​@@lincolnlane6763They're gonna need you to get aaaallll the way off their back about that.

[@FlatOnHisFace]

I got a hard copy of the Internet. Signed by the authors, too. It's ... big.

[@80Bucks]

Oh no, don’t give me any ideas I do that enough xD

[@Danka42]

This is not even satire, this is the process I went through to watch this video 🤷‍♀️

[@lincolnlane6763]

😂😂😂

[@musicalaviator]

@@lincolnlane6763 When Google logs itself out on your browser. Oh damn here we go again, time to open outlook, grab my phone and set in for a 10 minute fight with captchas.

[@jasminecole8596]

Verrrryyy fitting profile picture!

[@FlatOnHisFace]

Oops! Looks like you have ... hmm ... 437 viruses on your computer. Click this [link] and just keep pushing "Accept" and we'll clean those right up for you.

[@SpaceCadet4Jesus]

Gotcha!

[@jojospeechy4848]

So accurate! It's so frustrating. I constantly go thru this crap for "security", yet my bank account has been hacked 4 times in less than 6 months, UGH! THX for making this funny, Ryan. You're the GOAT!!!

[@ragecrane]

thank you for sharing your bright ideas with the world; your editing is tight! Your sense of timeing and witty writing makes re-binge watching "it's the 90s" barely an inconvience. please do a video in this style regarding finding a highly rated recipe (by humans not bots). it's like every goddamn recipe has a prerequisite autobiography/newsletter pop-up maze before getting to the goods. I especially hate it when they give you the jist, but then you have to sign up for the newsletter to gain access to the recipe in an email. sometimes it feels like defusing a bomb in an algorithmic labrinth of sponsored lies. Anyway. Love your work. Every video, even the ads are golden. Thanks again for the laughter

[@mtchllBarrett]

i love getting a security popup on my phone from google asking me to verify my identity followed by a gmail push notification on my phone telling me that someone just logged into my google account

[@newzealand1706]

There's always that part where you're like "this is ridiculous, but I'm this far in, I might as well keep going"

[@davidwuhrer6704]

Economists call it the "sunken cost fallacy". Biologists call it the "Concorde fallacy". Biologists also like to point out how it is a uniquely human logical fallacy, most noticeable in economists.

[@r38fan85]

I am in blood Stepped in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er Favorite quote from Macbeth

[@AxelHenx]

tbh when websites start like that i simply can't be bothered. if beyond essential cookies they send questioneers i'm out. did that donne that no thanks. can't cope with that sh*t.

[@sophefe]

Ryan, I was literally thinking “pineapple” in my head before the man in a suit said it. I can confirm there was indeed a massive data breech.

[@ceepert2153]

you forgot those popups that are like "hey please dont use adblockers" and prevent you from viewing the content of the site just after you started reading, causing you to search for another source.

[@rohanrajput_9]

Just happened with me today, youtube stopped me from watching any video, it took a long time to find which of my extension was blocking ads 😒

[@Jarakin]

Never before has something this funny raised my blood pressure by thirty points.

[@happmacdonald]

mission accomplished!

[@RCassinello]

You should try "The Password Game".

[@valkyrie-randgris]

Yeah.... yeah. u_u

[@MrOsiz]

*by 30 millimeters (fun fuct - the blood pressure is measured in millimeters of mercury)

[@cassolmedia]

@@MrOsiz colloquially, nobody says that in casual conversation. i say points when talking to my nephrologist.

[@letslego9914]

As an IT consultant that's been in the industry for almost 13 years I can verify this video to be 100% accurate.

[@Judge-1964]

So how much you paying those secret agents?

[@andrasbiro3007]

@@Judge-1964 20 cookies per our.

[@teudunngie4039]

You don't have to be an it consultant to figure that out buddy

[@K3wlG33k]

​@@andrasbiro3007 "...per our personal data" is what I decided you meant to say.

[@explorer3519]

We have better solutions around the corner like Radix personas. But people still hate Web3 unfortunately.

[@iKadaj]

yeah, top this: every so often, eBay interrupts everything i'm doing to do the i'm-not-a-robot test by saying to click on all the objects that are a computer mouse, and all the images shown are clearly and obviously definitely 100% ai-generated images.

[@RiazGT]

As a man in a suit who is paid to wait for random people at the corner of their streets i have to say that i love how highly websites take their security and i'm not just saying this because i'm being paid a lot of money to stand on street corners The only issue i have is that it's always about what the password is, why do i need their id, how long am i going to take, how they need to rush back home before the password expires but never about how i am doing or if i need anything. I may be paid ridiculous amounts of money to stand on street corners and say random words to people but i have feelings to. I know the password only lasts a minute or so from when it first asks you for it but that doesn't mean you can't stop to talk to me and ask me how my day is going and if everything is alright or shoot the breeze for a bit. The people of today is what's wrong with this society

[@killeing]

What scares me is how accurate this video is...

[@BobbySacamano]

I like it when I'm unsure if I should include the box that includes part of the traffic light structure but not any light itself, or when only a piece of the side mirror from the bus, motorcycle or car infiltrates the adjacent box.

[@TiMonsor]

things, that we, non robots, have to worry about every day. maybe this should be taught in schools

[@AD240pCharlie]

@@TiMonsor You should probably specify HUMAN school there, fellow human. We wouldn't want any non-humans to learn how to get past human-certification tests as they are currently 100 % accurate and cannot be passed by non-humans, such as those who aren't human like us.

[@timmiller1]

@@AD240pCharlieI too, like you, am a human.

[@timmiller1]

FYI your comment was copy/pasted by the pornbot and it’s performing way better than this

[@pierrotA]

I think that's part of the data they want. Not only that teach the AI how to reconised a lamp post, but that also teach themself what people call a lamp post. To be able to align an AI with our vision, we should first understand our own vision.

[@jesse7631]

This is so true! I love how Google sends you a notification when you log in, you select 'Yes, it's me'. Then after you do that they send you another notification telling you that someone just logged into your account, and you have to re-confirm, 'Yes, it was me'. On the same device! EVERY SINGLE TIME. I'm like - don't you know it was me? I just said it was me. I don't get it at all.

[@KatieMaddalena]

"Someone tried to log into your account-yea that was me." Every time.

[@SirAnanas]

This comes 2 days after I went online trying to look up how long frozen samosas should be in the air fryer for. Every page I went to had cookies, pop ups about privacy, ads while scrolling and a video ad pop up and every single website had so much text not relevant at all. I mean did everyone forget how to write recipes?

[@MayaPosch]

And then you add an adblocker to make the internet somewhat usable again, but then you get told that you're a bad person for blocking ads and are kicked off the site until you allow said intrusive ads once more. I miss the 90s internet, even at 56k...

[@saneiac]

Not relevant? You mean you don't care to read a four page summary of how this recipe influenced the writer's family over the centuries?

[@franklacey5054]

How long are they supposed to be in there? (Not a robot, don’t want cookies. Also lazy.)

[@happmacdonald]

The new trend to add onto the pile this quarter is the "complaining about your ad blocker" popups which even KZbin itself is starting to double down on

[@dozzy-ze3du]

I asked Alexa. She said 6 minutes.

[@GAS.M3]

Using the internet to watch Ryan George is tight. 😁

[@-CA-Games-]

Yeah yeah yeah!

[@infosyphongaming4309]

And It's super easy barely an inconvenience.

[@mbryson2899]

Ryan George _is_ tight!

[@E.C.Animation]

I decided. 😁

[@millertime3864]

Wow wow wow.....wow.

[@ABadPassword]

I think this is one of your best sketches yet! I love this style

[@lukebarnes8097]

And thats BEFORE you get bombarded with ads and videos that move to cover your screen after you've already scrolled past them.

[@liborohanka5010]

Most shocking is how realistic it was until that agent part! Not that they wouldn't want it, they just don't have enough people for it(maybe drones?)

[@y0sh_]

you don't have to talk to an agent for your secret 10 minute password? I think you need to strengthen your security

[@simongotfred8481]

My agent guy even asked me if I'm a robot, and then refused to tell me the password D:

[@amancalledjoe]

Wait, you're telling me that guy on the street who keeps naming fruit doesn't work for the website?

[@Sly-Moose]

Oh don't forget you'll have to pay for that fee, plus service fees, plus tax, plus tip

[@andrewbogard2411]

Just for Google they want you to sign in then put in a code they texted you and email you saying you logged in 😂😅

[@BlakeMcCringleberry]

Can you imagine what 90's Show Ryan would think about this kind of internet experience?

[@FlatOnHisFace]

He dies well before it gets this far.

[@Dipj01]

@@FlatOnHisFace good for him

[@crazyeyeskillah]

He would love it. I had internet in the 90s, this is way better. It took 2 days to view 1 photo 😂

[@FlatOnHisFace]

Yeah, but, doing the math, that meant you could finish all the photos on the 'Net in about four weeks. Now, you get those photos instantly, and you'll never get through 'em all.

[@UdderlyEvelyn]

Wow no popup ads! Whoa.. hold on what's this? Oh.. oh no..

[@elmatilda]

Was half expecting him to finally get to the website only for half the content to be locked behind a paywall

[@strawberrylemonadelioness]

This was actually more accurate than I expected. "Someone tried to log into your account...Yeah that was me!" is a really common one I feel like.

[@shriveborn9422]

How does Ryan George somehow always make his sponsorships entertaining? I forget I’m hearing an ad read sometimes

[@defective6811]

you know that's part of the science behind brand loyalty and demand manufacturing, right?

[@jeremycards]

Who knew that the way to make people watch ads was to actually make them as fun as the rest of the episode?

[@defective6811]

@@jeremycards the corporations who invest in marketing sciences

[@Rubbly]

who is Ryan George that is The Adstronaut at the end

[@raiseer]

Yeah. The gravity joke got me good :)

[@RedNovaTyrant]

You forgot the part where after all of that, you get to look at two paragraphs of the article before they block your sight and demand $5 to see the rest

[@snowangelnc]

Oh, you have to pay $5 if you want to see that part.

[@tbd1001]

Not to mention when you DO get through to the website it’s like looking through a letter box at the actual content SURROUNDED by ads and newsletter banners!

[@ojgfhuebsrnvn2781]

So true. Cookie one is especially annoying. Every website today asks it. On top of that i dont generally want to accept it and process of rejecting cookies is made really annoying and long. There is also "we've detected you have adblock, would you like to turn it off?" Pop up. And i decide to do it or not based on how i was annoyed by cookies

[@Argumemnon]

For some reason they never let me identify as a robot. This is discrimination.

[@jake_]

True. Denying us access to websites is unfair. Humans are so prejudiced.

[@pap-fr]

​@jake_ its such discrimination that is literally genociding transhumans everywhere who want to access the internet.

[@davidwuhrer6704]

Honestly, some robots are better people than many humans.

[@lloydmckay3241]

As the robotic revolution progresses I'm sure that people will start to do that. Look at the furries and all the other people who for some crazy unknown reasons decide to identify as an animal ect. Gone too far gone. Why is the society like this?

[@Jungleali]

Robot lives matter!

[@zengrath]

100% accurate. Only thing missed is how many sites also log you out after so many minutes like banks and most applications at my job. I'm not kidding I sometimes have to log into the same site like 20 times a day at work, incredibly frustratingly especially if talking to a customer and have to tell them to hold a sec while you log back in for the 15 time.

[@theonebman7581]

Omg I hate that My bank, credit card app and my college do that all the time, I can't even keep my session open for longer than 5 minutes without them kicking me off even when I'm on my own devices, it's so freaking annoying Like I get the concern, but no one other than me uses these devices anyways so what's the point

[@smudgerat9624]

You got a real life chuckle from me at the punchline. I laughed out loud, for real, unironically. An impressive feat.

[@TSIRKLAND]

"I am DANGEROUSLY close to going outside or reading a book!" used as a threat. LOL!

[@ObservableObserver]

Only allowing the essential cookies is always the way to go, but a lot of websites make it intentionally annoying to only choose the essential ones.

[@davidwuhrer6704]

It's misguided anyway. The reason they show pop-up banners is because they are legally required to disclose how they are tracking you and who they share the data with and for what purposes, and they are legally required to get your consent before processing your data. And the default option is legally required to be opt-out. Opt-in has to be a conscious decision, not the default. Which all sounds reasonable, you would want to know who is violating your privacy and why. But the thing is, they don't need to show you any banners _because the default is to not track you_ and there is no requirement to tell you what they are not doing. They show you the banners in the hopes that you are stupid enough to opt-in, and then they blame the legislators for their own being annoying. As reasonable as the law seems, the technical implementation is bass-ackwards. Cookies are part of the header, not of the content, it is up to the user agent - the web browser - whether to store them or ignore them. So the browser can show you how websites want to track you, and the browser can block that, and the browser can remember your policy once and for all instead of each website setting its own separate cookie to indicate that you don't want any cookies. Of course what the browser doesn't know is for what purposes those cookies are in the headers. As annoying as those cookie banners are, they have three benefits: They show you just how much surveillance you are under that you would never think of or expect; they demonstrate how broken the website is on a technical level and why you should turn off JavaScript and disable CSS animations; and even though they are legally required to make the content accessible even if you don't opt-in, the banners are an excellent reminder not to go to that honeypot site, ever.

[@AhsimNreiziev]

That's not even mentioning the "Legitimate Interest" crap. While only accepting the essential cookies should (legally) either be the default or at least as easy as accepting all or some of them, there seems to be an exception for a "Partner"s "Legitimate Interest". Problem is, companies can decide entirely for themselves what their "Legitimate Interest" is, so accepting the "Legitimate Interest" cookies is basically equivalent to blindly accepting all of them. The biggest problem with this being, some sites force you to scroll through a list of 5000 vendors, and manually disable the "Legitimate Interest" cookies for each and every one of them separately. And some sites make it *_even worse_* than that, where you have to click on each vendor individually to even _get_ to the "Legitimate Interest" checkbox, meaning you can't even scroll through the list and click to disable each "Legitimate Interest" box mindlessly.

[@PaintingWinterMusic]

Watching this makes me grateful that I'm a goat farmer in the Andes mountains without an internet connection.

[@dietotaku]

it sure was nice of your cousin in the states to post this comment for you

[@livewireOrourke]

Did you get one of your goats to type out this message and it send it out by pigeon to the nearest library? That's how I get it done.

[@spugelo359]

@@livewireOrourke I usually just do Morse code to a satellite. A little bit expensive but hey it works.

[@ncwordman]

@@livewireOrourke Using goats to send messages by pigeon is tight!

[@katiedouglas19]

KZbin comment by goat, hm?

[@echoawoo7195]

You really got me with those message bleeps. I repeatedly kept checking my phone for messages >_< For a second there I thought someone actually wanted to talk.

[@jacksteven781]

SO FREAKING TRUE. It takes 10 minutes to log in to my university email. Nobody cares about it. But it takes 10 minutes every single time, I can't save it as me. And they were hacked like 2 weeks ago.

[@michaelmeyers4843]

This video will become an important historical artifact in the future. People researching what using the internet in 2023 was like are going to return to this source over and over as a reference.

[@secla_SC]

Dear Ryan, I would like to thank you for making me laugh. Sometimes everything feels like it’s for nothing and everything looks bleak, but you help me smile and you make me laugh. Thank you.

[@2008bunnydemibigenderflux]

Agreed, sometimes when I just finished getting yelled at the only thing that can calm me down is watching one of his videos. Somehow he managed to get both quality AND quantity to perfection, which even without trying content creation I know it's not easy. I wonder if he knows how much it helps people like us.

[@Mo__Ga]

the best thing about having to use, email, password, phone number and god knows what is that when they're hacked you provided enough information to get hacked everywhere else

[@JiluMiah-ek2rd]

I’m dangerously close to going outside’ 😂😂😂

[@JameyMcQueen]

I usually don't stick around for the sponsors, as I'm not that interested in them, but this time I did, and the "I need gravity for my balls to drop" was completely out of left field and I LOVE it!

[@pg2826]

I had a friend tell me something similar as we were getting off a rollercoaster 😂

[@johnreiland9180]

What a hilarious parody that BARELY EXAGGERATES ANYTHING because this is the actual hellscape we all now live in. Also your ad spots are genuinely enjoyable and so I watch them and therefore hope you get paid well for them.

[@guybd5521]

A colab between Ryan and Zack Star would be amazing

[@Jacob-WD40]

Another great video, thanks for all the smiles, chuckles, legitimate laughs, and joy. :)

[@90spiderbros]

The longer this went on the funnier it got also I had no idea Ryan could make his voice go that deep and I love it.

[@myscreen2urs]

That was only made possible by bespoke post. His boulles recently dropped🙃

[@cindypoole6792]

"Go outside or read a book..." lol😊❤ bananas.

[@solesoulsorrow]

I hate when I have to select all the boxes with streetlights (or whatever) and technically one tiny slice of box has a streetlight, but not sure if I'm supposed to check it or not.

[@withmessagesofvirtueiamunt2380]

So true and done deliberately to pull a specific type of emotion out of you. Most a use for rage rituals.

[@theonebman7581]

Puzzled whether to laugh like crazy, or cry in depression over how accurate this is

[@varvraka]

same

[@chaddaifouche536]

Same here

[@juanpauloarcillas7600]

why not both. both is good.

[@screwyourhandle]

He only forgot the pop-ups begging you to turn off your adblocker, the insane amount of ads that somehow make it past the adblocker anyway, and fucking videos automatically playing in the fucking margins to distract you from the article you're desperately trying to read

[@ythandlerandom1278LK]

Using the internet in 2023 is super difficult ... massively inconvenient!

[@kennethgammell9457]

You could say it's barely convenient.

[@ChrisLeonard-np7lh]

I went online circa 1995. No ads, no commercial crap, no TOS, flame wars. Good times!

[@applejacks971]

Equally frivolous is the 'Please listen to the entire menu as our menu options have recently changed'. 1. No, they haven't 2. If someone is calling for the first time, they wouldn't know it anyway 3. If you have repeat callers that WOULD know, then you offer a crappy product/service and should fix THAT

[@gtdc4685]

I relate to this, if you excuse me I have to go talk to that secret code guy

[@TitularHeroine]

"Pssst. Hey. Mango."

[@gtdc4685]

@@TitularHeroine Okay thanks

[@derpboi42]

I like how there’s a computer typing sound effect even when he uses his phone Edit: it may be because he was typing on the computer with his other hand

[@dietotaku]

because he's typing the information from his phone into the computer

[@user-gn1cl9ix7p]

No, he's typing on his laptop keyboard with one hand while he holds his phone in his other hand. HOW HAVE 45 PEOPLE UPVOTED THIS?!

[@derpboi42]

@@user-gn1cl9ix7pit’s called likes, and I didn’t realize that

[@jeromevan4314]

This is absolutely one of my all time favorite videos by you I decided. Well done sir.

[@stinkusmaximus6621]

I like your comedic style nice refreshing and funny kept it up buddy ....my favorite so far is the video where you must see the persons face who you passed in a car ....so damn true lmao

[@TsukiNaito1]

This fits the definition of "so accurate it hurts."

[@flamingpaxtsc]

“Hi there, hello” is the most iconic phrase ever

[@Rihitu-ji7pi]

1:13 “We are dangerously close to me, like, going outside or reading a book, OK?” sent me lmao

[@gregbrown3082]

Next chapter: "Mr. George! We saw that you opened an incognito window! Ah, don't worry! To prevent your illicit search query from actually reaching your eyeballs, we've successfully blurred out every possible thing!" "But Sir, that's the whole reason I opened this new window." "Mr. George, are you sure?" "Yeah yeah yeah!"

[@partsofearth]

frustratingly accurate. also after cookies you always get asked if you want push notifications. then they ask you to join the newsletter. and then the verification email etc etc

[@DanM-pw9nl]

Will you join my newsletter about push notifications, and allow push notifications about our newsletter? Please prove you're not a robot first

[@Vatolicious]

As a cybersecurity professional I feel attacked and seen at the same time.

[@mattcat83]

While visiting Turkey, I have had to stop using Google because every time a browser I have to click on bicycles over 12 times in a row.

[@jn651]

Not just well-delivered hilarious and insightful skewering of movies, culture, and their associared infrastructure. Also better ads than anyone

[@Issidian]

This video not being sponsored by Nord is a crime.

[@BatAmerica]

I never knew that I wanted Ryan criticizing an overly complicated internet.

[@derpypizza]

Throwback to the time that lastpass, a PAID PASSWORD MANAGING SUBSCRIPTION, had a DATA BREACH. A password manager. Had a data breach. You can’t make this shit up.

[@pandathebagel8391]

I guessed that he was going to say pineapple. I've got Ryan's skit formula memorized to a T

[@gferrol118]

You missed the part where the picture has a tiny sliver of what they want you to select, and you have to decide if you select it or not

[@KnuckleHunkybuck]

Me: "This square contains three molecules of fire hydrant. Sure, this square contains a fire hydrant." Some fucking robot: "Nope, wrong. Try again, asshole." Me: "How are _you_ qualified to test if _I'm_ human?"

[@UnusedLasagna]

Never disappointing! Great as always Ryan!

[@nickmajora]

What are we, secret agents? This line's a banger.

[@azultarmizi]

Feels like Ryan uses that image of the chair backwards and it's funny to me

[@MargaritaOnTheRox]

"Are you trying to log in to your account?" "Yes, it's me." "Hey, someone tried to log in to your account." "Yes, it's still me!"

[@josefagomezschmeisser8356]

Anytime I try to long into my email

[@Spamkromite]

I love when these videos are uploaded when I'm in low spirits. Thanks Ryan for cheering people up with your witty takes on the stuff we are beset by daily 😅

[@user-io3tb5yl6t]

"I'm dangerously close to going outside or reading a book" That hit close to home

[@FlyingZard11]

Robot (at their top secret meeting): So, lemme get this straight...computers verify whether or not you're a robot BY CLICKING A BOX... Robot Leader: indeed. Robot: Sounds SUPER easy, barely an inconvenience.

[@lapislazuli5035]

Ryan is like the modern day Mad Magazine, it's where I get all of my satirical news from.

[@citkat1234]

Just imagine being as cool as Ryan George

[@sleeplesskid]

Not possible

[@-CA-Games-]

Teach me how

[@ncwordman]

Imagining I'm as cool as Ryan George is super impossible.

[@FrontBrandon14]

No. Well okay then.

[@DougieJR]

We all know it's you Ryan.

[@tegxi]

internet tip: it's easy to click the necessary cookies only button, and if you click customize settings on websites that don't have that button they'll almost always all be off by default! websites that don't have any buttons are just using necessary cookies (or being illegal)