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[-] KirbyProton@feddit.uk 13 points 1 year ago

It's just such a common misconception that there was no ads in the 'old Internet', that's all I was pointing out. There seems to be a nostalgic false memory that Internet back then didn't have ads which is hilarious if you were there to see what it was like

[-] lingh0e@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Ads are not the same thing as insanely granular data harvesting.

[-] JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, because if anything is better than granular data harvesting, it was ActiveX scripts wreaking havoc on your machine just by opening a webpage, disguised as ads.

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