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In that case, I think I'm really gonna enjoy it here! Its nice to finally find a place that doesn't entirely consist of advertisements and tracking, for once my adblocker can take a break.
Also, you're welcome! I got a lot of time on my hands so I've started checking the pub and reading up on older posts often. It's kinda nice.
Haven't used an ad blocker in ages. Can't remember why. Probably something about feeling cheating for having to make an effort to fix what had long been heralded as a sort of "second coming", i.e. the internet.
But I suppose it was just yet another case of greed ruining things. See also: for the love of monetize.
Somewhere along the line I played with text-only browsers (e.g. lynx, elinks), then raw web scraping. But, again, it started to feel like working for something that was quickly becoming worthless. Vague recollections of becoming weary of keeping up with html keyword augmentation.
I mean, doesn't it say (more like reiterate, really) something about the species that the meat (text) gets buried in gobs more times husk (keywords and syntax guardians) for appearances sake?
And from my point of view, for what? For me, what we've been doing here in this thread is what I've mostly wanted of the internet.