Who ruined the internet?
The websites requiring cookies for 850 "partners".
>>108484787You. Also me when I buttuckced your mom and she got pregnant with you somehow. The virality of my sperm cannot be contained by the anus.
>>108484787Readers of the Guardian.
>>108484787>Who ruined the internet?People who would read the tardiness even if it was free.
>>108484787Society https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBb1gf46LIk
>>108484820>tardinessAlso phoneposters like myself
The EU.
>>108484787This - pay up or we'll shove a barrowload of cookies up your ass - 'choice' is still better than facing the Final Demon Endlessly Respawning Wack-a-Mole Boss that is Legitimate Interest. EU did so much better with phone chargers.
>>108484787The European Commission.
>>108484787why is everything pre 2010 so sovlful and modern stuff is not, it is like, they try hard to be souless on purpose
>>108484787normalniggers boomers using google ruined the internet
>>108484880>>108484936EU doesn't allow a "reject all and subscribe" option
>>108484787We did. By on boarding non-nerds.
>>108484787big corpo
>>108484787you lost tranny
>>108484958thank yhwh for brexit
>>108484787j___?
CloudFlare.
>>108484787>WhoThere is one nationality that single handedly ruined the internet. There's over a billion of them and they have a butthole in their flag.
>>108484787Each in their own ways, Russians (bots, shills), Indians (scammers, spammers), Facebook, Google et al (mass scale data scraping and privacy invasions), assorted "AI" companies (slop)
>>108484787some German sites started this purAbo shit and after some literally useless lawyers came together to check if this is valid under the GDPR the best they could come up with was "no but yes" and ever since this shit has been spreading like cancer
>>108484787>NOOOO give me things for freekys commie
me
>>108484787What ruined the internet.> Totalitarian boomers in the government> Dystopian tech companies (kind of, youtube is dystopian but it is a good service). I can tell that everytime I comment on politics, the number of blacks in content and ads that are shown significantly increases. Probably to drive chuds of their platform, lol. Won't work.> Ideological supremacists (people who believe their morality is superiour and should force their ways onto others). -> Activists. Censorship.> Financial interests combined with loads of data and personalisation.
>>108484795fpbp /thread
I so love the 900 companies having """legitimate interest""" that I have to disable individually per site. very cool.
>>108484787steve jobs and zuckerberg but in reality, it was the normalfag cattle with 0 resistance towards getting addicted to every piece of bullshit out to exploit themif drugs weren't legally regulated, we would be like china during the opium crisis
>>108484787Obama/Clinton/Biden gov that worked together with advertisers to spread propaganda and destroy the free online discourse
>>108484787you really have to ask (((who)))
>>108484787tinny hats club, corporations, boomers and women, next question
>>108484787cloudflare
>>108484787What the sigma
>>108484787>Five euromonie ad-lite
>>108485698>euro>guardianamerican education
>>108485714There's literally a euro symbol in OP's image you fucking retarded donkey.
>>108484787If everyone downloaded and ran an brewser plug-in to randomize cookie values this shit would disappear overnight
>>108485737and that symbol is not used a currency
I am always surprised that Apple just dgaf and roll their site without cookies.Never seen a cookie banner when going on the apple website
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>>108484787me
>>108484787Unironically /g/ and boomers.
>>108485766because they're fucking ugly and annoying.
FAGMAN
>>108484787Mark Zuckerberg.He transformed the internet from a cool place with people with nicknames trying to entertain each other into a "real names" space, where people post their retarded annoying real life to get clout or something because it was more profitable.He killed the soul of the internet, and everything that happened later is a direct consequence of the new context.
The ice age!
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>>108484931I have seen many "bugs" that show you ads when you're not supposed to see ads.I have never, EVER, EVER seen a bug that makes ads NOT display. EVER.
>>108484787haha
I will blame this on smartphones.Smartphones > people going online all the time > people on the bus, or on the train, or at work, reading the news on their phones > nobody buys newspapers any more > news websites are either worthless hellholes with zero journalistic integrity, or are forced to paywall their site > OP's image happensWhen you consider all the other harms that going online all the time has inflicted on society, it was clearly smartphones that ruined the Internet (capital I).That, and the profit motive in general. There are some cookie warnings that you only get on really shitty AI-slop websites, and I just close the site if I get one of those warnings. I reinstalled Unreal Tournament 2004 recently, to see if it would work on my new Linux PC (it does, but there's no sound) and the EULA had clearly been written from scratch by someone with passion. "Hey, yeah, our lawyers say you need to read this, so, like, please read it, or skip it, whatever" kind of thing. The cookie warnings are just copied and pasted between websites, and the laziness is offensive.
>>108485683gorhil deserves the nobel peace prize
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>>108484787You did.
>>108484787What are they "guarding"?
>>108484787>subscribe>"you'll still get ads by the way"lmao wtf
>>108484787The internet no longer exists. We live in the post-internet era. The internet ceased to exist, because search engines ceased to exist.
>>108487977https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian>The Manchester Guardian was founded in Manchester in 1821 by cotton merchant John Edward Taylor with backing from the Little Circle, a group of non-conformist businessmen.[24] They launched the paper, on 5 May 1821 (by chance the very day of Napoleon's death) after the police closure of the more radical Manchester Observer, a paper that had championed the cause of the Peterloo massacre protesters.[25]So, poor Norf workers, possibly?>The influential journalist Jeremiah Garnett joined Taylor during the establishment of the paper, and all of the Little Circle wrote articles for the new paper.[28] The prospectus announcing the new publication proclaimed that it would "zealously enforce the principles of civil and religious Liberty ... warmly advocate the cause of Reform ... endeavour to assist in the diffusion of just principles of Political Economy and ... support, without reference to the party from which they emanate, all serviceable measures".[29]Also, civil and religious liberty. But really it's more just like when a newspaper is called the Sentinel, or the Crusader. Sometimes you need to fight for truth and defend against lies, metaphorically.
>>108484787Smartphones.The third world.Children.
>>108485698my dick twitched
>i wonder what will happen if we try to connect the entire world on platforms all based around promoting emotional volatility for engagement we can monetize>haha wait, social engineering is really easy when the internet is more than just first world autistic men in tech who are perpetually paranoid smartasses?>what happens if we try using psyops and infowars with memes? kids love memes>wow, now this is incredibly easy when the internet is mostly children and the barely literate>can we destroy critical thinking even further? maybe attacking legacy media and creating functional social credit scores would be a great method of social control>what was the name of that one uber autistic hostile but oddly influential internet sphere that requires no signup or verification? i bet that place would be easy to manipulate and destroy any ideals of so we can turn it into a political tool>the potential for manipulation is HUGE. he is sensitive, so be gentile>????>CHAOS REIGNS, THEN PROFIT
Corporations
>>108484787Is "pay to not be spied on" even legal in the EU? I know The Guardian is a British rag, but I've seen the same shit on some Swedish sites lately.
>>108484787 ^^^^^
>>108484787EU. Per usual.
>>108484787capitalists.Now some people say the Jews; but only jewish capitlists. Wall St. is the devil.
>>108484822that is such a copout bullshit answer.Society built a great internet, a small concentrated group ruined it.
>>108485160This
>>108484787>You
the worst is yet to come.whatever's left of it will be destroyed in the coming months as zucc is playing along with (and bankrolling) moral panic movements to destroy section 230 and with it any potential competitor to facebookhttps://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/26/everyone-cheering-the-social-media-addiction-verdicts-against-meta-should-understand-what-theyre-actually-cheering-for/
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Then.>High IQ, well educated, whites and rich asians who could afford a $2000 PC (more like $4000 in modern inflated money) and monthly dial up internet account then figure out how to make it work by reading the manualsNow>anybody with a $15 just werkz android smartphone and free ad-supported internet to their slumhmmm. yep, i'm certain it's 100% just evil kkkrapitalism.
>>108490892Don't forget to verify your age when you turn your computer on.
>>108484787Nobody. You CHOOSE to use slop sites.Tell me anon, what's so pressing that you need to read some shithole UK news site?>OHH MY LIFE IS NOT COMPLETE UNLESS I CAN ACCEPT COOKIES TO GET MY DAILY LUGENPRESSE>tHe iNtErNeT iS rUiNeDOnly if you're pathetic faggot that needs these sites to survive, I guess. I don't have any sympathy for slopeaters.
>>108488058>recent article written by UN proud african kangz saying that white people owe huge reparations to Africa for muh slavery* and was the single worst violation of human rights in history ever, including outright genocides>*only Atlantic slavery of course, Muslim slavery and modern day slavery is totally exempt>comments disabledsasuga Guardian
>>108485160>Totalitarian boomers in the governmenAhh yes those evil totalitarian boomers who *checks* require corporations to inform you when they wish to store data on your computer..........Zoomers are unbelievably retarded human flotsam.
>"i want to read journoslop. please let me read my journoslop">"hi, we're journoslop. pay money to read our slop">"nuuuu i want the slop for free">"ok then we are going to store little bytes of text on your computer that can be easily deleted by your browser settings">"also, to protect your consumer rights, we are required to inform you that we're doing this. you have the choice to keep using our site to read slop or not">"OH>MY>GOD>THIS>IS>SO>DYSTOPIAN>JEWS>DID>THIS"the utter banality of /g/ - Technologyliterally 99% of this board is inept hypocritical trash that has no idea what they want out of their living experience, they just rage like chimpanzees who can't reach the banana
>>108491017The actual news segment of the guardian is broadly fine and neutral, but yeah... their opinion columns are full of prime bait like this. They broadly skirt around it with "this is the opinion of the author, not representing our own views"
The internet died when all corpos in the world realized they could monetize the shit out of the internet by legally spying and get people addicted, then the internet became a giga spyware tool that got the interest of governments to get the data that corpos collects.
>>108484787Unironically the EU and similar socialist shitholes like the UK. We're having the age verification shit because the UK and AUS started going for it unironically and that showed others it's feasible.
>>108484787normies and money
>>108484787the nsa
>>108484787Ads.>>108485076Read that again.>>108485534>republican politicians did not spread propaganda because i agree with their propaganda>>108488022Same thing on YouTube, subscription services like Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video, Paramount+ and other newspaper websites.Most ads are embedded into content nowadays. You can thank Hollywood for that, they were the first to do it.
>>108491016Retard. Can you think beyond the present?It was changed into this crap, same thing applies with hundreds of thousands of other websites.They were changed by either the law or greed or both.>>108485160Ads and specifically targeted ads is what lead to every point you mentioned.>>108491418It is called surveillance capitalism.
>>108484787steve job for giving access to lives unworthy of information access((zuckerburg)) for bringing in all the karen complainersreddit who pioneered platform gestapo model
>>108485138him
>>108484787>Who ruined the internet?Time. Time ruined the internet.Time will also ruin your food and make it rot.Time will eventually ruin your body and kill it.Time is ruiner of everything essentially and ultimately.
>>108484787You know very well who but you're going to jump through all the hoops in exiatance, even backwards doing a flip, before you're forced to name the goddamn elephant in the room.
>>108491612absolute retard
>>108491644I would say capitalism and greed.It was fine when everyone treated everything as a hobby and just did things for the sake of fun without a care about the world, now all everyone thinks about is how to monetize the hell out of the most basic things and how to squeeze the users dry, or retards reinventing the wheels and thinking they are the next Gates pushing their crap down everyone throats making the experience worse for everyone.
>>108484787For people saying EU you do realize that the standard was for websites to collect all your data and not give you a choice and store it as they please without consent and because EU made it mandatory to provide an option to opt out from the jewery you now see this cookie notification shit. Uninformed individuals think sites only try to collect your data after GDPR because they are being loudly informed about it for the first time.Anyone with even an ounce of computer literacy is running ublock + cookie notice list so you can auto-refuse everything.
>>108491644time is simply a vector
>>108491586>republican politicians did not spread propaganda because i agree with their propagandaThe internet became propagandaized due to Obama and Biden years. They manipulated and established the ad agencies to censor the internet and make it all partisan hackery. Before them, the internet was just wild west. Now its all censored and with censorship a widenet of echo chambers.Before that the internet was known as "tubes" that politicians didnt understand or got into. It was only when Obama became known as the "internet" president that it was steered toward political propaganda machine. You're too young to understand, but people did not castrate themselves before hand. It wasn't a thing. The mass censorship push wasn't a thing. You only want mass censorship and you're a political hack because of the echo chamber created by the political hacks that took control of the internet and made it a state propaganda machine
>>108484939Remember irony, post irony, and the many infinite layers of irony that made everything less fun? We're still living in those times. We're reaching further into the depths of what it means to be ironic while also heavily imply seriousness shrouded in vagueness and unclaimed by those with any virtue.
>>108484787isn't there a way to pretend you have cookies but you actually don't? like a container or something
>>108484787google and facebook. mostly google though, advertising is a plague.
the normalfaggots, 3rd worlders and every corporation that moved their infrastructure over to the web
>>108484787I did.
>>108494988you should not have done thati will have my revenge upon you
>>108491489Calvin and Hobbes had so many great pages.
>>108484787Apple for the development of the smartphone. Though that is not entirely fair, if it wasn't them it would have been someone else. It was always going to go down this way.
>>108484787Phoneposters
>>108484787Centralisation, normies, and more recently third worldies.
>>108491745You're absolutely right, but this feels too broad somehow, like it's not even impressive that you're right because it feels obvious. Although, to broaden it even further, the collapse of the global economy in 2008 meant that it's now a lot harder to make money any other way, and so if you want to get rich, you almost HAVE to be an online grifter.Wait a minute. 2007...2008...could it be possible that iPhones caused the subprime mortgage crisis?>>108493994I really think Facebook gets a bad rap. They lied about advertising revenue and it destroyed clickbait almost overnight. The remaining news outlets are still bitter about the time they all got forced to "pivot to video", but they aren't really impartial sources, especially if many of them used to work for Upworthy and shit like that.
