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by indus 846 days ago
We need to go back to the future of something like ODP[1]--human curated directory of weird sites written by humans.

[1]Open Directory Project.
1 comments
tivert 846 days ago
> We need to go back to the future of something like ODP[1]--human curated directory of weird sites written by humans.

How would you (practically) verify that to make that dream even possible?

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Const-me 846 days ago
It’s not terribly hard to detect whether a specific page contains any ads. Blacklist any pages with ads, and you remove the incentive to pollute the directory.

The internets worked that way for quite a while, before modern big tech invaded.

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tivert 846 days ago
> It’s not terribly hard to detect whether a specific page contains any ads. Blacklist any pages with ads, and you remove the incentive to pollute the directory.

But that doesn't actually verify that they're "weird sites written by humans." I think detecting ads would be harder than you think, and there are more motivations to spam a directory than just pushing banner ads.

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