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It has always been user hostile since the days of pop-over ads, pop-under ads, obnoxious browser toolbars that were basically malware, etc. It seems like since
by porcoda 4y ago
It has always been user hostile since the days of pop-over ads, pop-under ads, obnoxious browser toolbars that were basically malware, etc. It seems like since around the year 2000 it’s been a nonstop fight between people who want to extract money and advertising impressions out of users versus people trying to keep the web user friendly. I think we only had maybe a 5 year run of the web being user-friendly at the beginning, and that was just because people hadn’t quite yet figured out how to extract money from web usage.
- NoZebra120vClip 4y agoWell, that, and the Web was created a bit before the commercialisation and privatisation of the Internet as a whole. Since the Terms of Service of the Internet running on the National Science Foundation's backbones actually prohibited commercial activity, that put a crimp in the style of people who would try to extract money from its usage, don't you think?