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I feel this too, almost daily. the "need" for web browsers to provide more than just the data I want to find/read frustrates me. I have no issues with reasonably placed adverts for content that is relevant. the performance of my pc is not so much an issue for me, as much as the continued stream of advertising/trackng/bloat/images/etc that are attached to the most basic of sites. while HN is as much of a social network I am willing to join, I do miss the days when email/newsgroups/irc/rss were capable of almost every task I needed online. email more and more feels like an invasion of privacy, a distraction from what I actually want when online. newsgroups were great as it was just a shitty text stream and I could read it without bells and whistles. irc was the same. rss I miss the most as the glory days of everything having an rss feed and it being text heavy, advertising light and focused are gone. who wants to be penpals in 2021 with me?