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Those ads are why you can crank an obscure topic like the second French restoration into Google and get useful information. Or you could just go straight to Wi
by massysett 4y ago
Those ads are why you can crank an obscure topic like the second French restoration into Google and get useful information.
Or you could just go straight to Wikipedia, whose only ads are for Wikipedia fund drives.
- thedailymail 4y agoThere was a time when the internet was not beholden to advertisers, but still managed to deliver all kinds of lovingly/obsessively detailed sites on obscure topics like the second French restoration. It was slower and jankier and (arguably) harder to navigate, but it showed that many people are happy to produce and maintain online content without resorting to ad-veillance.