Ah, the optimistic dream of browsing the internet in 2025 vs the nightmarish reality. Remember when the internet was just... websites? Now it's a dystopian obstacle course of cookie consent forms, CAPTCHA puzzles that make you question your humanity, password requirements that need a PhD to understand, paywalls demanding your firstborn child, and file formats that didn't even exist last Tuesday. The future is here—and it's asking you to prove you're not a robot for the fifth time today while simultaneously demanding you subscribe to read a 300-word article about why subscriptions are ruining the internet.