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[Rant] I hate the modern internet (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by kapx132@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I am fucking scared of the mass surveilence nightmare direction that the internet and the world as a whole is going towards... C2PA, france hacking itself into citizen phones, the UK anti encryption law, EU's chat control, etc. Im also sick of and hate the "you will own nothing and be happy" mentality that corpos try to push. I dont wanna know how the world will look like in 5-10 years.

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[–] Gnubyte@lemdit.com 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah agreed. I'm working on a solution but it's going to cost the consumer. According to Zuckerberg the first sin of the Internet was making everything free. If you're doing things in the dapp space it's harder since every person needs a server not just an app in an ideal world.

These monolithic websites have a lot less of an excuse imo since they run on a shared server though.

[–] socsa@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

He's kind of right in a way. If advertising is your model, you can never get bigger than the collective sum of your advertisers. That's scales well until you are one of the biggest companies in the world, and then there just aren't new sources of advertising dollars to build on. You need other monetization channels, and those can frequently be in conflict with the advertising mission.

A subscription based service, in theory, directly converts your specific utility as a good or service into cash flow, rather than the utility of the service for pushing ad impressions.