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This just makes me realize that entirety of the internet has just become a gateway to sell you something.

captainkrtek 1y ago
It’s been a continual evolution of making everything commercialized.
armchairhacker 1y ago
Someone could make: one million screenshots of indie homepages, e.g. from https://explore.marginalia.nu/view https://explore.marginalia.nu/view EDIT: I just realized, there are weird sites even on onemillionscreenshots.com. Type in obscure, older-style URLs via the search bar until you find one, then go to its screenshot. If you're lucky the surrounding sites will be more older-style and weird, less store pages. Example: https://onemillionscreenshots.com/?q=red-lang.org https://onemillionscreenshots.com/?q=red-lang.org, https://onemillionscreenshots.com/?q=gunnerkrigg.com https://onemillionscreenshots.com/?q=gunnerkrigg.com
speerer 1y ago
Take heart: I checked this by taking a random screenshot, and browsing down to see how long it took me to find a commercial page. A quick sense of my trail was really encouraging: - Open source wasm runtime - Science transparency campaign - Netherlands gov anti-climate change program - open thesaurus - GNOME conference - France's portal of towns and cities - Scientific measurement standardistion page - Scientific journal - free eBook library - parked domain - Linux community - Open source graphics library - placeholder/template blog - A book publisher (selling books!) It took quite a while to find a commercial site,and that itself (a bookseller) is a positive thing itself.
- hulium 1y ago
  It seems like the screenshots are clustered in some way. That is especially visible when you zoom out.
4gotunameagain 1y ago
We are living in an age that in the west it is super popular to monetise your body even. Late stage capitalism.
- huhkerrf 1y ago
  > Late stage capitalism. Never before has it been popular to monetize your body. That's why the world's oldest profession famously has nothing to do with it.
- spaqin 1y ago
  East ain't that much better :)
- echoangle 1y ago
  People have been monetising their bodies forever, everyone doing physical work (or even any paid work, technically) does it.

It’s been a continual evolution of making everything commercialized.

Someone could make: one million screenshots of indie homepages, e.g. from https://explore.marginalia.nu/view https://explore.marginalia.nu/view EDIT: I just realized, there are weird sites even on onemillionscreenshots.com. Type in obscure, older-style URLs via the search bar until you find one, then go to its screenshot. If you're lucky the surrounding sites will be more older-style and weird, less store pages. Example: https://onemillionscreenshots.com/?q=red-lang.org https://onemillionscreenshots.com/?q=red-lang.org, https://onemillionscreenshots.com/?q=gunnerkrigg.com https://onemillionscreenshots.com/?q=gunnerkrigg.com

speerer 1y ago

Take heart: I checked this by taking a random screenshot, and browsing down to see how long it took me to find a commercial page. A quick sense of my trail was really encouraging: - Open source wasm runtime - Science transparency campaign - Netherlands gov anti-climate change program - open thesaurus - GNOME conference - France's portal of towns and cities - Scientific measurement standardistion page - Scientific journal - free eBook library - parked domain - Linux community - Open source graphics library - placeholder/template blog - A book publisher (selling books!) It took quite a while to find a commercial site,and that itself (a bookseller) is a positive thing itself.

hulium 1y ago
It seems like the screenshots are clustered in some way. That is especially visible when you zoom out.

4gotunameagain 1y ago

We are living in an age that in the west it is super popular to monetise your body even. Late stage capitalism.

huhkerrf 1y ago
> Late stage capitalism. Never before has it been popular to monetize your body. That's why the world's oldest profession famously has nothing to do with it.
spaqin 1y ago
East ain't that much better :)
echoangle 1y ago
People have been monetising their bodies forever, everyone doing physical work (or even any paid work, technically) does it.