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> and stop participating in online society?

Sure. This site is one of very few sites I can bear to visit. I come here for the comments, I don't even open the links anymore, I just assume people will quote anything important.

When I made my own website, I deliberately set out to avoid as many of these obnoxious dark patterns as humanly possible. The result was basically a marginally improved motherfucking website and I'm actually pretty happy with it. I think that's how websites should be.

If the web is gonna turn into an opaque proprietary mess for the benefit of advertisers, it doesn't even deserve to exist.

> Are you going to stop buying from ecommerce sites

Absolutely. I already avoid it.

> viewing youtube

Absolutely. I already use yt-dlp, if that stops working I'm just gonna forget about it.

> and reading your gmail?

I rarely read it anyway.



Ha, I'm not the only one. Barely ever visit the links unless that's something I'm actually personally interested in, by coincidence. Mostly come here for the comments.




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