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  "textContent": "> > The internet is going to die because it has become an utterly stupid and pointless waste of time.\n>\n> I don't think so. The Internet, while a lot of people seem to easily forget this, is a lot more than a handful of websites, or the world-wide web, for that matter.\n> Is it a pointless waste of time that I can send a digital message over the internet to my elderly mother who is thousands of km away? I'd say no. My alternative would be to write a postal letter that can take weeks to arrive.\n> Is it a pointless waste of time to be able to track and verify things I send and receive in shipping with track&trace? No.\n> Is it a pointless waste of time to be able to make a payment in the store with my debit card? Also, no.\n> Is it a pointless waste of time to be able to order goods and services I would have a hard time doing otherwise? ...\n> I could go on.\n> And that's just a few high-level things off the top of my head. We are a lot more interconnected through the internet than you maybe realise. I've seen this develop first-hand, so I'm very aware of how the fabric was woven over time.\n\nBut what about the \"handful of websites\", which is the issue I'm really talking about? I'm not talking about \"the internet as a useful piece of public infrastructure for moving data around for various financial and logistical purposes\". I'm talking about the fact that the general user experience with using websites for information and research purposes has turned into absolute garbage. And that's just talking about the Cloudflar-ification of the web, not even discussing the fact that almost no one gets paid for writing anymore, and so your search results are going to be filled with AI hallucinatory slop. You almost have to use AI in order to dig past all the AI slop to find some data of value. There was a brief hope in the late 1990s that the web would usher in a grand new era of human enlightenment. I think by any metric we've failed to realize that promise pretty badly.\n\n* * *",
  "title": "General Discussion • Re: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues",
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