What has become of the internet?

Don't you hate that as well? In the earlier days, the internet was full of free stuff, made by people who just wanted to provide useful or entertaining content. Simply to celebrate this awesome technology. Nowadays, everything needs to be monetized. It takes significant effort to navigate around all the ways in which they try to harvest your data, sell you some product or influence your opinion and it somehow feels like you're stealing their stuff.

Not here at bird.lol, though. There's nothing to steal, just some free comics to enjoy. And I think you're awesome for enjoying them!

Comic transcript

Panel 1-11:
H is trying to access a website but has to navigate various dark patterns to reject cookies, not create an account, close an advert and reject push-notifications
Panel 12:
The website finally reads:
The usual cooking time for a frozen pizza is 20 minutes.
Panel 13:
H: Wait ... why did I Iook this up again?
Panel 14:
Dark smoke is rising as a smoke alarm beeps.
H: Oh. Right.