"The way to keep giant companies from sterilizing the Internet is to make their sites irrelevant. If all the cool stuff happens elsewhere, people will follow. W

"The way to keep giant companies from sterilizing the Internet is to make their sites irrelevant. If all the cool stuff happens elsewhere, people will follow. We did this with AOL and Prodigy, and we can do it again." I love this grassroots empowerment, but the internet is mainstream now, and like pop music/tv/news and consumer product manufacturers like nestle, proctor n gamble, colgate-palmolive etc, big corps are fantastic at targetting it. Most people don't want cool stuff. BTW turning off js and images solves a lot of this problem - unless you need to use the site.