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by paxys 1130 days ago
> It is clear the web is turning into trash or is already there

Back in the "good old days" people keep mentioning there were maybe some single digit million people online. Today there are ~5 billion. So by what measure are things clearly worse? And for whom?

2 comments

I just want to point out that more people using X doesn’t necessarily make X better. More people using the web today it’s just that, more people using it.

As for what measure, things are probably worse from a privacy/tracking stand point and also from a user centralization stand point. At least in my opinion.

For me its just anecdotal. the metric is "# of times i laugh out loud when a mobile browser pops up to show me a link and its just rendered jump and popups and things I can generally not interact with"