and has intrusive sponsored posts and ads" and like... yes? yes that's what most of the modern internet is like. welcome back after your 20 year long coma i guess.
like, do you just always use adblock? do you only visit like 3 websites? how are some people who work in tech this disconnected from the realities of what the vast majority of the modern internet is like for the vast majority of users.
it must be nice to have the option to never look at stuff like reddit or quora but sometimes those are the only places you can find niche documentation or help for something like R or statistics or 3D printing or emulators
everybody should be upset at how heavily monetized and gamified and network-effect-y every website is
we need to all keep being upset about it and demand better, even when we know there's no alternative sometimes in the short term
the modern internet, it's hard to see how they'd be able to fix them
for example the main browser i use on my phone? it simply does not support browser extensions. not to mention adblock and advertisers are in a constant arms race and i'm worried Google Chrome is going to become a monopoly and have built-in adblock that blocks everything but Google-affiliated ads.
and lots of people HAVE to use the big platform websites, for their jobs or for school, like the time in college where an art history class required me to get Instagram
