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  "textContent": "One of my internet buddies on another tech forum wrote a fantastic piece on why today's internet sucks catastrophically and degrades every aspect of our lives, I'm going to quote them here:\n\n\n> Everybody expects everyone else to have a smartphone. I go to the doctor, the receptionist is sitting there doing nothing, yet she wants me to check myself in with a smartphone. Landline phone service no longer exists in my area despite the electricity going out literally multiple times every winter. I'm stuck with buggy VOIP that won't disconnect the phone line after I hang up.\n>\n> Every internet-based company has a long privacy policy about how they'll use or sell customer data. There's always some new tracking technology; you block cookies, but now some websites use supercookies or pixels. On some websites, you can't read a block of text without enabling javascript or disabling your vpn. Infinite Cloudflare loops, authentic online content replaced with \"influencer\" posts/videos: the Internet is not really the place to be anymore.\n>\n> Public services keep choosing to integrate Google services or introduce new web technology yet keep getting hacked. Every other organization, even the public library, is using random third-party services that want private info. I was notified that my health insurance company was hacked, then I couldn't access the class action settlement money without giving some unknown third-party service my personal information.\n>\n> And so many people complaining about the power mainstream social media has, yet nearly everyone is on it. Apparently governments would rather keep fining Facebook than tell their citizens to stop using it.\n>\n> I sometimes fantasize about moving to a developing country. I wouldn't mind going back to paying in cash, going to businesses in person, standing in line to speak to an employee instead of having to unblock Google services to submit an online application, if I can get the application to even load on Abrowser [_Note - Abrowser is a Firefox fork for 100% free software enthusiasts_]. I once filled out a job application that was trying to load Google Maps. Some modern web development just makes no sense.\n\n* * *",
  "title": "General Discussion • Re: Is the internet still useful nowadays?",
  "updatedAt": "2026-04-03T22:46:11.000Z"
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