Vivaldi co-founder: Advertisers 'stole the internet from us'

Re:Vivaldi co-founder: Advertisers 'stole the internet from us' by mikae1 on Sunday March 12, 2023 @11:03AM (#35120838)

> People made content because they wanted to, and it was generally better quality than the corporate blogspam we have now.

I agree. But the web was smaller then and I'd guess that in absolute numbers the amount of personal websites and blogs is greater now.

> The commercialisation of the internet was a mistake.

And inevitable as capitalism has a tendency to commodify almost everything, sooner or later.

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Re:Vivaldi co-founder: Advertisers 'stole the internet from us' by Touche on Sunday March 12, 2023 @12:30PM (#35122159)

I'm not sure that's really true. I remember looking at pages of search results on Star Wars websites. All built from scratch, none of them had ads. All of them much better than for ex. Wookieepedia despite having less content. I think you would have a hard time finding more than a handful of websites (on any given niche topic) like this today.

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