Comments by "Be N S O N" (@Colddirector) on "Is Google RUINING The Internet?" video.

  1.  @bigsyrup8567  I mean that still makes it a more toxic place to be. Doomscrolling is something that just didn’t exist in 2007 (even if Twitter did), and algorithms weren’t pushing mentally damaging crap in everyone’s faces.
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  2. The modern internet is way more functional than old internet. You don’t have to deal with dialup, everything runs faster and you can do a lot more with web pages. However it’s certainly become much more centralized, more toxic and less free than it once was. I grew up on 2000s internet, but I try not to let nostalgia cloud my judgement. I suspect that a lot of people, if transported back to the 2000s internet would find themselves yearning for the speed and functionality of the modern web before long. And I say this as someone who often pines for the days of web forums and YTMND Also the ceiling for the quality of web content has dramatically improved. A channel like UEG would probably be unheard of in 2007, as well as like 12 hour reviews of Oblivion lol
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  3. I kinda suspect that stuff about Gen Z letting AI think for them is either based on heavily massaged data or no data at all. I remember during the Web3 thing where big metaverse spokespeople were insisting that young people were living inside the metaverse. Most young people I know seem either ambivalent about AI or outright hate it. That’s also not real data so take that for what you will
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  4. I type my home servers IP address because I’m too cheap to get a domain lol
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