• @[email protected]
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    98 months ago

    It’s just such a common misconception that there was no ads in the ‘old Internet’, that’s all I was pointing out. There seems to be a nostalgic false memory that Internet back then didn’t have ads which is hilarious if you were there to see what it was like

    • @lingh0e
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      -18 months ago

      Ads are not the same thing as insanely granular data harvesting.

      • @[email protected]
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        58 months ago

        Yeah, because if anything is better than granular data harvesting, it was ActiveX scripts wreaking havoc on your machine just by opening a webpage, disguised as ads.