Archive.org will eventually be destroyed under capitalism, but it’s both a wonderful window onto how the web used to be and also the equivalent of low-background steel for human knowledge. That and Wikipedia are the only unsullied places I can think of that have outlasted the last 15 years or so of enshittification.
this post was submitted on 06 Jan 2024
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Yes, but was Bonzi Buddy ~~on the blockchain~~ AI-based?
Luckily you can mitigate most of it by installing uBlock Origin.
i second ublock origin.
But the problem runs deeper. Sure you can hide from all those ads they display, but they can still data mine your existence and shape it with their recommendations.
they can still data mine your existence and shape it with their recommendations
You can protect from that, too, but it's substantially harder and takes a lot more effort.
I resent the idea that a normal person needs like two media studies degrees and a minor in cyber security to interact kinda safely with aspects of our society that are essentially non-optional
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It’s prohibitively difficult enough that most people will never even try, which means it’s working as intended.
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I still can't see any links my friends send me if they're from twitter, facebook, insta, etc (half the time anyway, seems to let me sometimes for short amounts of time) because they block the site with a wall telling you to log in.
If you're looking to view twitter posts your friends send you, just replace the url from twitter.com or x.com to nitter.net
For added convenience, there are helpful plugins that can perform this task for you, such as LibRedirect.
Ive been using it for years and a month a go I sadly started seeing ads on youtube for the very first time.
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Tor browser with security mode on Max. Find out how much of the internet is actually information or paywalls
I was just thinking about this the other day. I noticed that I would click on an imgur link and try to zoom in on my phone, and it legit just took me zooming as permission to redirect me to some completely random imgur post about the worst meme you've ever seen. And I'm like "isn't this like clickjacking or something? i thought that was considered malware"
i visit hexbear, my favorite invidious instance, and sometimes satisfactory tools and all of them with privacy badger and ublock. thankfully i have been relatively shielded from the enshittification. but i really hate how the www is headed straight into the shitter