The average user used a ton of very very un-private things, including all manner of unsandboxed browser plugins. It was mostly about trust back then. Windows

The average user used a ton of very very un-private things, including all manner of unsandboxed browser plugins. It was mostly about trust back then. Windows explorer could not keep you safe from exploits, so an average user saw the internet as a somewhat dangerous public place. Archiving was easy, because we didn't have any of this evil bad awful endless scrolling that I strongly suspects creates low grade anxiety regardless of content. We had real pages with a URL that you could download. even forums(Which were so much better than social media) were paginated, not scrolled. Now archiving, decentralization, cryptocurrency, and anonymity are often baked into the same layer. I'm not going to bother with anything that uses Blockchains and five times the bandwidth, and most privacy centric projects aren't high performance or easy to use. They often expect you to make some real sacrifices for privacy, without any "compromise modes". Everyone is really focused on the tech, but most of it's already there. There's tons of anonymity networks out there. What we really should ask, is why the sites used by the majority of people including tech pros are designed seemingly to encourage anxiety, comparing self to others,and throwaway content?