Remember when the web didn’t suck?

  • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
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    6 months ago

    Sorry, I couldn’t resist. And contrariwise to this pic I do agree with you, the web used to be better. Sure, ads were always a fucking annoyance, but they’re reaching unbearable levels nowadays; a lot of people (like me) tend to not see it because of ad blockers, but once you turn them off? Eeeeew.

    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Well, you could land on a bad site full of nasty ads or wind up downloading software that offered you the finest of malware or viruses.

      And you could just not go to them, or not download sus programs or warez.

      Now the sites and apps hunt you down and shove it in your face. They follow you, rat on you, sell your info, and constantly try to sell You stuff every page you land on.

      Yeah, Old Internet wasn’t great, but it wasn’t institutionalized malice like we have today.

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 months ago

      Wild that the original of this image edit was “remember when /b/ was good” back in 2005

    • pete_the_cat@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Whenever I turn off AdGuard on my phone to get something to work and then forget it’s off I’m bombarded with ads everywhere and I’m like “oh, yeah, gotta turn that back on”

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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      6 months ago

      There was, like, a golden age in the early 10’s before popups and animations everywhere, and after popups and animations everywhere.

      It’s possible I’m just nostalgic. If it sucked some way I’m not remembering I’m very interested to hear about it.

    • molave@reddthat.com
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      6 months ago

      It’s the nostalgia filter. By the 2030s, some would think the year 2020 is the closest thing to utopia humans actually experienced