Ask HN: Is there any hope for the Web?

2 pointsby renanbg6 anni fa2 comments

I feel hopeless as everything I read about the current state of the Web is about Google and Facebook's growing monopolies, disinformation, paywalls, user-hostile websites, ads everywhere, not to mention all the privacy issues.

And the worst part is that I do experience each one of these problems everyday as I try to surf the Web and I'm almost done with all this bullshit. I'm just tired of the poor quality of most websites I visit and tired of feeling tracked all the time.

I just feel like stop using seach engines at all (I use Startpage, btw), since I rarely find anything useful through them, and stop using any website besides Wikipedia and libgen, really. And maybe checking out HN once a month.

Anyway, how do you use the Web these days? Any thoughts?

2 comments

just-juan-post6 anni fa

Google definitely sucks now. Seeing as how worse results = more page clicks to find the content you want = more ads served there isn't much incentive to fix it.

Here was some good discussion on a similar topic:

Ask HN: Has anyone else just gotten bored of the Internet?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25051710

ebcode6 anni fa

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