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The internet is worse than it used to be. How did we get here, and can we go back?
(theconversation.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Kind of my point. We gained ecommerce, streaming services, platforms such as this one, online gaming, mapping services, and others - at the cost of the freedoms for which people are nostalgic. And now we have ads, personalization, tracking, and inevitable enshitification.