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Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible (stackdiary.com)
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[–] 40 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

The silver lining here might also be that the internet that we knew and loved 25 years ago might actually reappear. The 'other' stuff would just become background noise to the ones 'in the know'.

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Lol wouldn't that be epic. IRC becoming a big thing again because discord, whatsapp, and all thr other business social media go to shit.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I sometimes wonder if this would be best outcome. Rather than spending so much effort trying to fight for the internet at large, those of us “in the know” just take our balls and go play in our own corner.

    The fediverse might be a test of this it continues to survive but never turns mainstream.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    There is an author - Tad Williams, who wrote the "Otherland" series. One of the chapters has the some of the main ensemble going to "treehouse" - aka what happened in this universe when the nerds, geeks and techno wizards took their ball and went home. The series as a whole is interesting if you like sci-fi. That chapter however seems more and more on the nose the older I get.

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