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The Internet is becoming genuinely unusable without an ad blocker
(self.enshittification)
The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source
We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.
We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.
It's been shitty for a long time now. I've been using adblockers since they exist. And I can not fathom how people don't realise how pathologically sick its become. The internet used to be a great place, everyone forgot.
You could write "click here" and people would just do it because that link would reliably go to something cool.
The ads were text on the top of the page, and ironically unblockable. But you could block the autoplay MIDIs.
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
"Web search found no results" instead of just showing you a bunch of wrong results.