one reason i dont like using the internet is because i have to read this same "oh nooo the internet is distracting" shit over and over, even on a site about programming
Well congratulations, you are the one person in the world who bothered to go dig into the network before opening the page and save him one millisecond of CPU time.
This is yet another instance of the OS reuse problem, e.g., where airports, banks, medical terminals, etc have all kinds of unwanted features because the software is based on booting a GUI OS desktop and using hacks to make it display the program. Not valid engineering of course.