• wanderingmagus@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Maybe it’d be healthier for all of us in the long run to just unplug, go outside, and visit a library or join a social club. Or we can just unplug from the internet corpo-net and go full Fediverse and FOSS. I’m sure there’s plenty of people already doing it here on Lemmy.

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        1 year ago

        Im here to vouch for camping, specifically burns.

        Its a great way to talk to folks in a generally left leaning environment, try new things, have wild experiences, and you all use your superhero names so nobody actually knows who you are.

        great way to disconnect from the internet in a made-up society that is a bit nicer, plus theres a cool fire

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      It’s just a paywall with extra steps.

      Anyone that implements it I won’t use their content unless it’s absolutely necessary. I think stack exchange may be the only site that has enough pull for me to visit them anyway.

      Any browser that gets around it I’ll use instead. I’m already using Brave, Firefox and Edge instead of chrome.

      Really All this is going to do is create a opportunity for AI ad removal, Man in the middle rendering raster scraping the data removing anything that looks like an ad.

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        That is a great idea for a browser extension. An AI module that hides ads and clicks x’s and generally fucks with their engagement numbers but don’t let any of it get to your eyeballs.

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      #Google will make you want to unplug (as Cloudflare has done to me), but if you’re in Europe you will be unable to because European governments have already killed off offline infrastructure (#digitalTransformation). There are already a number of government transactions & public services that can no longer be done offline.