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@erkhyan@yiff.life from my own experience i gotta say absolutely not that. there's alot i dont miss about the internet in the 2000s but lack of global access was absolutely not a plus. what was an enormous plus, however, was that corporate conglomeration wasnt nearly as far along, and there was vastly less complex data harvesting and no cryptocurrency or AI. these are the reasons that alot of people i know miss the old internet for to be clear smartphones also play an enormous role in what the internet negatively became, they've especially been a catalyst for tracking and "personalized advertising" (actually just data harvesting) because having devices with always-on GPS and always-on microphones, even tracking when the phone is completely off, is a godsend for the nastiest possible actors