This is the entire internet now.
>>110272487ctrl+w
>>110272487Use your burner login email?
>>110272494What if I just don't want to make 500 different accounts for 500 different websites? what if I just simply want to read a text, without creating an account?
>>110272487Then I'm not using that dogshit site/app/whatever the fuck, simple as. I've already stopped using plebbit because I can't use old reddit without a fucking account.
>>110272487That's one way to bring back ye olde internet, ig
>>110272501>what if I just simply want to read a text, without creating an account?Then you're fucked. Much like you're fucked if you truly lock down your browser against tracking. If that's done correctly, most modern websites just break down and refuse to run because your data can't be siphoned anymore. We live in dystopian times and either you care and do something against it, or you want to continue consoooming like a good goy.
obligatoryhttps://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
>>110272501I think the best thing to do about this problem is to educate your normie friends. Websites only get away with this shit because 99% of people are either too apathetic or too technologically uneducated to understand how much easier it is to track someone both online and offline when every website forces them to have a user account.I became good friends with a co-worker earlier this year and we started hanging out together. I showed him how to use Librewolf and how to use uBlock Origin in advanced mode. It only took about 10 minutes to show him how to use advanced mode and now he blocks third-party javascripts on every website he goes to. He was very shocked by how much bloat and spyware is hidden in the background of websites, and now he's even considering installing Linux on his PC, to eschew microslop spyware.>tl;dr if you want things to change, you have to educate people.Show your normie friends and family the amount of bloat and spyware that "modern" websites have running in the background. They almost always get shocked and start taking your "silly privacy nonsense" a lot more seriously when you show them something tangible, such as a bunch of third-party javascripts running in the background of their favourite websites.
>please log in>now give us a phone number to verify >now give scan your ID in to verify your ageit's tiring.
>>110272645I’m usually not a hardliners, but I will simply not be doing that. I’m finding myself downloading much more of my porn these days because the good old classics keep disappearing
>>110272623you are ill
>This is the entire internet now.
>>110272487you lost tranny
>>110272487Wrong! Sometimes it looks like this.(Github, by the way)
>>110272658>buzzwords>50% chance this poster is a bot>50% chance this poster is just a retard consooomer>call it
>>110272623I've installed Brave on my parents' phones and they revert to using vanilla chrome
>>110272487Not on my end.Say, even perfectly capable AI is accessible without login. Be it local or non-local.Only normal people succumb to the login-wall. Don't be normal.That said, there are way too many normal people on the web these days.
>>110272509this for me too
>>110272501>What if I just don't want to make 500 different accounts for 500 different websites?Use a masked mail address? Decent mail providers offer those these days for there is a dire need of them.
>>110272697I don't want to.
>>110272674You have to really, truly **show** them how malicious and invasive big tech spyware is. Try installing uBlock Origin or Noscript on their phone and show them all the intrusive shit that runs in the background on every single website (note that neither uBlock nor Noscript can even run in vanilla Chrome anymore. I guess Google would prefer that people get malware from ads than be able to watch a few Youtube videos without ads. That might cost Google 1/1000th of a cent, so they can't allow that).
>>110272722You don't get it, boomers grew up thinking adverts are cool and cultural, they meet other boomers and talk about adverts, that's their monoculture. Blocking ads for them is like cutting off a limb.
>>110272487between this and AI, I just uninstalled Linux (openSUSE) and installed Windows 11. Computers are dead for me and I'm no longer going to spend time on them, find something else to do. It didn't take too long to die.
>>110272674>>110272722You don't understand. Some boomers are okay with ads, they even think it's fair. My mom uses Firefox with ublock, but my dad doesn't ever block ads, it's impossible to convince him otherwise.
>>110272487more like this for me
Yet you're on a site that requires a paid login to post normally.
>>110272732>>110272757Fair point. They grew up watching ads on television. They have shared cultural memories of particularly funny or interesting television ads that they probably feel fond and nostalgic for.More importantly, anyone that was born before the 1980's grew up back when 100% of media came from centralised sources. It would have been trivial to convince them that ads are good and that you should just be quiet and accept them. Even back then, it was possible to record TV programs on VHS, so that you could play them back later and fast-forward through all the ads. But anyone who did this would probably be told by their peers that they're "stealing" from the network, or some dumb shit like that.A handful of television networks controlled 100% of the media narrative and dominated societal opinion and discussion until the 2010's, when young millenials (people born circa 1990 and later) began to consoom more of their media from de-centralised sources, via the internet, and less of it from television. This temporarily ended the reign of influence that these centralised sources had over people's lives. Of course, it didn't take them long to adapt, and now, here we are today.The technology has advanced so rapidly that we now have different generations living and co-existing that each spent their youth getting their media through completely different means. People born before the 1980's lived long enough to see technology that could provide them with all the media they would ever wish to consoom, without ever having to sit through a boring ad; yet they choose not to, because they spent their youth living in a time when the media they consoomed was funded by the same people making those ads.>tl;dr boomers and gen x'ers will never change their ways. just write them off and try to educate zoomers and gen alpha about big tech spyware instead.
anyone else feel like the internet is dead the past few weeks?nothing is going on anywhere
>>110272962The internet has been dead for years. There are a few generals on this site that humans still post in though.
>>110272489>deletes 1 wordwdym
>>110272652if you didn't start archiving before the huh purge, and especially if you didn't start immediately after before every other site purged, it's long over for you
>>110272658Actually, it's "you won tranny" now. Please update your spambots.
>>110272697>What if I don't want to do (thing)>HaVE YoU TRiEd DOiNG (thing) ?!?!
>>110272660>GithubNothing of value was lost
>>110273687Oh dear. He's going to have to find out how useless Congress is for the first time?
>>110272487username: NIGGER@NIGGER.COMpassword: NIGGERDEATH666
