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How to fix the internet (www.technologyreview.com)
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We’re in a very strange moment for the internet. We all know it’s broken. That’s not news. But there’s something in the air—a vibe shift, a sense that things are about to change.

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[–] 73 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Oh the irony, I opened the site which has no less than 3 popups and it immediately fried my mobile browser. I had to kill the tab.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    My pihole guaranteed that my experience remained pristine. The author didn’t make any money from my visit, but their income loss is a sacrifice I’m willing to make.

    Which is really what the whole problem here boils down to.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    And people ask why we use adblocks... my potato computer can't even browse the web without blocking as much stuff as I can.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I use pihole at home, but when I take my laptop out and about, I sometimes notice its fan going wild. Shut down the tab I'm reading and it calms down. What the hell are running on these sites?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    I remember one time wwhen I was browsing reddit for a few minutes (booted righ before, doing nothing else, fedora os, minimum stuff installed, no unusual activity in the process list, automatic updates disabled) and noticed my fans spinning a lot, so I opened the system monitor to check what was happening. It was showing high cpu usage in a firefox process, and it registered 40bg of downloaded data!

    It never happened again, so I guess it was some sort of bug they fixed, but still, it was something so bizarre to see.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    What browser/OS? I didn't see any of that.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Android and Firefox

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Are you not using ublock or something too? I didn't see any of that and is all I have installed. Maybe I just got lucky.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Not using ublock on my mobile until just now. I went to another location and opened it and this site wasn't as bad that time, just the paywall got me

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