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Like fuck all the proprietary junk and versioning, and just have a bare bones HTML ASCII extranet designed to be simple and without any bugs to patch? Obviously a naive question.

But seriously, the 56k dialup world with Napster GeoCities and AOL Instant Messenger was better. Add capacitive touch screens, current data throughput infra, and lithium batteries to 1999 and we are peak Matrix internet territory. Yahoo and net navigator were better than chrome stalkerware and google digislaver fascism.

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 25 points 16 hours ago (9 children)

Because people who make websites want to get paid for them, payment is based on showing ads, ad companies want to maximize tracking via javascript, and if the only javascript is for ad bullshit it's easy to block it so they force the content to load via javascript too.

It's systemically fucked up in a way that goes beyond just the technology itself.

[–] primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus 18 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Tl;Dr: capitalism. Capitalism cannot allow nice things to exist.

[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, the alternative is that all those people who want a way to offset server costs don't find a way to do so, and therefore pack up and go home. And then we don't get those websites.

Or, we solve the underlying problem

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