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Funny. Before DRM, spam, i-have-to-monetize daily 5 minute of bloging into a full time pay, unskipable 30s YouTube ads, profiling every possible user behavior
by quickben 9y ago
Funny.
Before DRM, spam, i-have-to-monetize daily 5 minute of bloging into a full time pay, unskipable 30s YouTube ads, profiling every possible user behavior and other shady shit like that:
We wondered how can we improve the web.
Now, we wonder how to save it.
- soared 9y agoSpam, scams, and bad ads have been around since the start, what internet were you using?
- mr_spothawk 9y agoSpam, scams and badvertizements have been around seemingly since long before the internet.
- Chaebixi 9y agoThey were, but back then, that stuff seemed much more marginal, now it's seems front and center with even major players engaging in some bad behaviors.
- anigbrowl 9y agoSince the start of the web, arguably. Usenet used to be really pleasant to use apart from the first few weeks in September when a new bunch of college students had to be integrated into the system. Spammers blew up something wonderful for a quick buck.
- r3bl 9y agoI would say before algorithms started showing us different content even if we are subscribed to the same feed(s). DRM is hardly a problem unless you're using a handful of products, unskipable ads were hardly a problem before smartphones and their market stores took off, and spam was there since the Internet started. What is new is that Facebook, Google, YouTube, Snapchat, Instagram, and increasingly Twitter are all showing us different content, and our personal preferences (things we follow) are increasingly irrelevant to the information we're receiving. This all happened in this decade, and this is the decade where we started to fix instead of improve the web. I would point the breaking point somewhere around 2010-2011, when Google, YouTube and Facebook all decided to personalize the things we see.