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"Finding interesting stuff" maybe. But finding a lot of the things I used to find some years ago is just not possible anymore. Somehow searching changed as well as the ecosystem of the web itself. The big global players dominate nearly every inch of the web and many sites look like clones of each other. There is a lot more effort being put into censorship and also more threats to ordinary users in my opinion. When I…
I'm wondering how far back you're going, because when I think of "the old web" I think of being intentionally misdirected to a worthless website that had temporarily won the SEO fight and "Punch The Monkey And Win A Prize" flashing ads. Not to mention popups, pop-unders, and all manner of ad-spread malware taking advantage of under-policed ad networks coupled with near monoculture of OS. Today's internet experience i…
In my opinion it was much easier to block those popups etc. as they've not been as invasive as the current malware.
Of course back then there was already stupid things as well but it scaled and got a lot worse I think.
I suppose you talk about the experience as a user? Because as an admin etc. things got a lot more complex since then.