Not everything being about profit
Not being 1000% about data mining
No god damn pop up’s. Every fucking site I go to takes like minimum of 6 clicks to get rid of useless windows
Ads All.The.Time. At this point, if your ad even remotely annoys me, I will go out of my way NOT to use your product.
Real people. So much online interaction is with bots now.
Being able to believe more things. It used to be pretty apparent when you were looking at a computer modified image. With all the deepfakes, bots, AI, etc I assume absolutely nothing is real or accurate info.
Info. Like useful info. Secondary, niche communities you could relate to.
Install Ublock Origin. Seriously.
Doesn’t look like an option for safari.
Don’t use safari, then.
You can install Librewolf/Firefox through Homebrew package manager. See: https://brew.sh for more information.
Yes, I know. Safari extensions are all through Apple’s App Store which sucks.
No god damn pop up’s
We must have been on a different internet, popups back in the day were atrocious, and this was before adblockers were effective.
Homestar runner
A lot of what I’d mention has already been said, so I’ll add the lack of influencers.
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Net neutrality
The basic privacy. You could post on a forum and it was just you and the people on the board talking. Today you post anywhere and it’s the whole world looking at the conversation.
Rotating gifs all over every homepage
Better search. Even with modifiers, results are so chaotic and not what I’m looking for. Just the other day I was trying to find recent information and set the parameter to only results in the past month. Three separate search engines (Google, DuckDuckGo and Bing) all showed year old results first. Not to mention the bubble they put you in.
Yeah the first 10 results are all ads or clickbait SEO things that don’t answer the question, and even you set the results to only the last year it just ignores it and gives you results from 2013 anyway.
You might like Kagi Search. I’ve found the results much better than the alternatives.
Then you don’t remember what search was like before Google. Google changed the game and was for a long time so superior to Altavista, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves etc for search results that it became the defacto search engine.
Of course, eventually it all goes to shit and Google is getting there by serving more and more ads across all their services.
Google was awesome when it appeared. Great search results, quick, no ads, clean UI. I’d pay to have it like that again.
Goofy, random flash videos. AlbinoBlacksheep was like the internet in its prime
NO SOCIAL MEDIA. I belive that Facebook has made the collective humanity a lot stupider. Groupthink, sheeple, influencers, contrails conspiracies…
We had social media, it just wasn’t cancerous like Facebook. It was more fun like MySpace, forums, blogs, IRC, etc.
What we didn’t have was algorithmic social media. That needs to a die a fiery death in the depths of hell.
If it were up to me, algorithmic curation and promotion based on viewership history would be outright illegal.
- Usenet. Eternal-September.org still provides free access.
- Scorefiles / killfiles were brilliant
StumbeUpon
I really miss IRC and usenet. And I know both still exist but I miss the communities there 😊
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Demon Torrentz. Also, the absence of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Google-owned YouTube, and Threads. Did I miss anything?
Is that like XiaoXiao?
I just searched about it. It sounds like original newgrounds. Sounds awesome
Just search YouTube you stick death. You’ll find a bunch of stuff.
Oh! I remember that!
