Haha, so true. I really really miss the "old" interwebz. Imagine the content of back-then with the hardware of today. The dream of yesteryear would come true. A blazingly fast net. Just html with a bit of JS (when really needed). Not 10 frameworks (each used for one function), dozens of mb of graphics, a gazillion of cookies and tracker-scripts and... Jeez.

Today i need so much stuff to fight the other stuff, it's stuffmageddon.

Oh and if you're also European you can also fight (for free!) the silly cookie-war.

[–] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just don't look at it if I have to make an account.

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same. Those sites simply don't exist to me. If it's so important that I see it, then copy/paste the content.

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Right? If your message is important, then set it free. If it's not, then I'm not gonna care.

[–] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The browser in my computer at work doesn't have an ad blocker. I haven't installed one because I most of the time I'm using it to access our intranet. But when I do happen to use the internet, damn are there so many ads! They literally block the content I'm trying to read, and come back even when I try to close it.

All that to say, due to enshittification I will forever keep my ad blocker on my personal computer.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Can't imagine what the web is like outside of ublock origin...
The few websites I see on pcs by clients are essentially state backed so they don't have ads as well.

Scary world I am not eager to experience.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Web 2.0 desperately clinging to life. FOSS self hosted web is the future. Internet speeds are fast enough on home networks that self hosting is perfectly viable for essentially everything, and for the few things that can't be self hosted by just anyone, FOSS alternatives and work arounds to existing paid services exist.

Internet is becoming harder to monopolize, and increasing amounts of power and control are being handed back to the working class online. FOSS has become a movement that has grown exponentially over the last few years.

Their next recourse will be attempting to make jail time a thing for piracy. Both for hosting it and downloading it.

[–] ClamDrinker@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Lets be real - This isn't going to change on it's own. The only way for it to change is if everyone collectively took a stand against it. Which simply just won't happen. The most reasonable thing to do is to focus your energy on collectives that actively reject such practices. Oh hey, you're already in one: Lemmy, good job. As long as we work together to create a small corner of the internet that remains true to what the internet should be, we can grow it and create a better internet in the long term.