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Ad blockers are a must (lemmy.ml)
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[–] [S] 2 points 3 years ago (4 children)

At that point we might see a split between corporate and open internet.

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

    If and only "if" this split occur. Unfortunately only few tech conscious people about the importance of free internet as a whole and privacy will adhere to it. Will not be a big movement to harm the core of the big tech.

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  • [–] [S] -1 points 3 years ago

    My perspective on this is that it's about sustainability as opposed to trying to compete with big tech in a zero sum game. For example, Mastodon or Lemmy aren't able to compete with commercial platforms in terms of users, but that doesn't mean they're not viable communities. I can see a future where there's a niche open internet that exists independently of the commercial one and I think that would be fine. As long as there are enough people to do development on platforms and browsers and to produce content, that's all that really matters. In fact, a split might even be better because then we wouldn't have companies interfering with how the network operates.

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