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I can't stand sites using mobile page loading for desktop pages while completely removing pages..

It's something that's common on many sites first established by Apple for certain applications on MACS with YouTube popularizing it to a much larger extent.

When I want to view content, videos, or images, the infinite scrolling, load more buttons, or continue buttons are extremely aggravating. You have to waste so much time trying to find the content/video/image you actually want, and what's worse is most of them don't even place you back where you were when you press the back button, and the ones that used to no longer do so since a few years ago. Why? No idea.

Removing pages was already a big issue for me, but when they removed new urls per every section of the continuous loading or load more button solutions the whole thing became ridiculous.

On YouTube for one example, but it happens on other sites, there used to be a "page" in the URL everytime you used the "load more" button, now the URL does not change so on YouTube, content sites, images sites, and ever article sites, you now just have to use the "new tab" option on articles to pull up pages of interest so you don't have to start the scrolling over again from the top.

But the thing is some sites have buttons that don't generate a new tab button so you're just screwed in general. Even for mobile all of this is annoying but forcing desktop users to use this shit is beyond logic. Did people not learn ANY lessons from Windows 8? The cross-integration of mobile, desktop, and Tablet DOESN'T WORK. Stop it.
 
Agreed, I wonder if websites do this so they don't have to have a mobile version and a desktop version of their site, simplifies it on their end maybe.
 
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