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+I am writing this to go over all the shit web devs do. Fuck them. A lot of
+what I have to say are things discovered through umatrix. Often times we only
+see the outside of a website but when using a good content blocker like
+umatrix, noscript, ublock advanced mode... the inner workings of a website is
+brought into the light. What I often find isnt pretty. Sometimes a website is
+themed to look old school but under the hood its just a bunch of modern
+javascript bullshit and a hell ton of frames. Other times more modern looking
+websites have little to no javascript and instead use tastefull first party
+css to get that look.
+
+### Please dont hot link
+
+From what I have seen neocities users love to abusive hot linking all the way
+to the deepest depths of hell. Every single button, blinky, gif, meme... on
+their frontpage is hot linked. Its perfectly ok to make your viewers suffer
+with too much of that shit. I do the same. But **please download all the
+images and gifs into your image folder instead of hot linking them**. Here is
+why:
+
+  * Hot linking puts strain on the sites you link to.
+  * Hot linking makes your site handle link rot poorly.
+  * Hot linking annoys the fuck out of people using any type of addon or browser feature that disables third party images. We do it to stop tracking pixels and things of that nature.
+
+Indeed this doesnt only apply to images and gifs though images and gifs are
+the thing hot linking is most abusived for. Another one I should point out is
+the google font api bullshit. Dont use that shit.
+
+### Please limit your use of javascript
+
+**Its best is to not use javascript at all.** Though if you are addicted to
+the drug javascript and cant help yourself at least try to limit your use of
+it. That means **all static content needs to be accessible without
+javascript**. No using javascript for fancy drop downs, no using javascript to
+handle your layout, no using javascript just to get text and images onto the
+screen, no using javascript for basic animations... this is what html and css
+is for mother fuckers! Javascript is easily one of the worst things humans
+ever created. Javascript programmers kept asking what they can use javascript
+for but never stopped to think should they use javascript. To top things off
+every new javscript feature they add comes with a hell ton of fingerprinting
+baked deep into it. Most of the things you fuckers use javascript for can be
+replaced with either css or backend. Try out a public access unix system, a
+vps... if you wanta try making dynamic websites without the evils of
+javascript. For making your website feel fancy css got you covered. Check out
+[css zen garden](https://csszengarden.com). See how it looks fancy without
+javascript? css is way more powerful than many of you realize. No need to
+program your website like its a desktop app. The best part of css is you can
+both use modern features and not fuck over people using older browsers!
+
+### Fuck frames
+
+Frames are stupid dont use them. Just link youtube videos instead of frame
+them for fucks shake.
+
+### Graceful degrading
+
+Please check out [any browser](https://anybrowser.org/campaign/). You arent
+going to test your site on every single browser and make it look the same on
+every single one. Instead make your site degrade nicely. If css, images, html
+features... break the important stuff will still work. If you own a website
+pull it up with umatrix installed and start blocking things. Does it still
+work? **Websites should contain content not layout.** You dont need to use
+tables for layout or outdated css to make your website support old browsers.
+Instead you just gotta make sure things can break without rendering your
+website un-usable.
+
+### Not important but...
+
+I found using width on images to scale them down doesnt work in some old
+browsers like dillo. To fix this I just scale all my images to whatever size I
+need in gimp first. A added plus is not having to load a massive image just
+for a tiny icon (like someone with as many images as my site would ever care
+lol) and you can decide how you want your images scaled to.
+
+### Shut your piehole
+
+I can already smell the angry sweaty tears of modern web devs. Screaming about
+how everyone should just install chrome to get all the latest ~~features~~
+bloat and spyware instead of telling web devs to slow down ~~progress~~
+clownery just to support old browsers. Here is what I have to say about
+that...
+
+  1. I already said you can use modern css.
+  2. **Websites are nearly network accessible documents.** They shouldnt replace desktop apps, run as a program on your computer... At most a website should act as a interface to make requests to a server. That can be done quite easily without javascript.
+  3. Desktop and server OS's is where the progress happens. Thats where powerful software is programmed and in real languages to.
+
+Javascript programmers are now making desktop apps in javascript and writing
+their backends in javascript you say?! Humanity is fucked.
+