• willy096@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Sometimes it is unbelievable. They want to make the Internet their own, following their model… luckily there will always be people fighting to keep the Internet free, where anyone can decide, in this case, whether to swallow ads or not

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      1 year ago

      Destruction of the Commons is key to capitalism.

      The internet is a huge ripe field to exploit.

      The destruction of the free resource is a consequence of how we organize society.

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      1 year ago

      It is indeed another attack on #openData principles.

      luckily there will always be people fighting to keep the Internet free

      Google’s move makes the fight much more uphill for freedom fighters. The real problem is the masses of pawns who fail to vote with their feet. Some of them voted with their feet merely because CAPTCHA is inconvenient. Eliminating the CAPTCHA puts these #tyrannyOfConvenience users on the wrong side of the fight.

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      1 year ago

      keep the internet free

      Never see ads

      Gonna have to pick one

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        Absolutely untrue. People run websites and pay for their servers themselves. People inherently want to post stuff on the internet and many websites don’t have ads at all. Think of pretty much every old blog that used to exist, or every portfolio page for an artist. I will simply stop using Google’s internet and that will be that. I pretty much already have to be honest, Google results are absolute dog shit.

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            1 year ago

            I loved Geocities. I personally had like five different pages on it, including one that acted like a virtual tour of a video game world I used to play where you would navigate through map screens and could “talk” to characters. My friends and I would also have a communal page, which worked like our own mini-reddit where we would post cool shit, and then webring to our individual sites. I also currently have an ad-free website, which I operate and create all the content for myself.

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              1 year ago

              Geocities was dope AF man!

              TikTok is the closest thing we have to a mainstream recreation of those days, if you curate your feed properly. It was truly the Silver Age of the internet