• AttackBunny@lemmy.world
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    Not everything being about profit

    Not being 1000% about data mining

    No god damn pop up’s. Every fucking site I go to takes like minimum of 6 clicks to get rid of useless windows

    Ads All.The.Time. At this point, if your ad even remotely annoys me, I will go out of my way NOT to use your product.

    Real people. So much online interaction is with bots now.

    Being able to believe more things. It used to be pretty apparent when you were looking at a computer modified image. With all the deepfakes, bots, AI, etc I assume absolutely nothing is real or accurate info.

    Info. Like useful info. Secondary, niche communities you could relate to.

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      No god damn pop up’s

      We must have been on a different internet, popups back in the day were atrocious, and this was before adblockers were effective.

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        There was a time in the 90s when popups were definitely terrible. But at some point tools and I don’t know what else made it much better. And now we are full circle back to pop up madness.

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        Yet.

        Call me pessimistic, but with meta wanting to be here, it’s likely to ultimately be ruins/commoditized too. Eventually. It’ll be great while it lasts.

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          Partially yes, but never the whole fediverse. Even Meta can’t control all of it. Thats the beauty of it

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      To be fair, I only came online late 90s and all we had was Internet Explorer, no Adblock and a constant barrage of popups, ads and toolbar installers and even child porn. I remember downloading one song and having to close 20 windows.

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        There were ad blockers even then, like “Web Washer”. Browser plugins/extensions weren’t invented yet so these tools were locally installed proxy servers with simple black/whitelists. Worked really well!