• MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    Cornerstones of the internet:

    • social media
    • content sharing (video, audio media)
    • e-mail
    • websites

    Internet resources ruined by ads/corporate greed:

    • social media (full of ads, borderline unusable without ad block)
    • content sharing (account sharing blocks (Netflix) war on adblockers (YouTube) etc)
    • e-mail (spam)
    • websites (ads, borderline unusable without adblockers, refuses to load with adblockers)

    gg everyone. Time to reinvent everything.

    • kase@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      So true. I’d like to add that also because of ads, social media and other websites are full of nonsense clickbait content, and every part of the user experience is designed to keep you scrolling through said content. Even with an adblocker, it’s like wading through a swamp to find anything actually worth looking for. (Of course, there are still websites with no ads, and even the ones with ads aren’t always horrible. But generally, shit sucks.)