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13 votes
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Speed trap | Google promised to create a better, faster web for media companies with a new standard called AMP. In the end, it ruined the trust publishers had in the internet giant.
14 votes -
The Vietnamese military has a troll army and Facebook is its weapon
8 votes -
How culture made Japanese internet design "weird"
6 votes -
The World Wide Web became available to the broader public thirty years ago
5 votes -
Dril is everyone. More specifically, he’s a guy named Paul.
5 votes -
They posted porn on Twitter. German authorities called the cops
7 votes -
Here is the FBI’s contract to buy mass internet data
7 votes -
Update to Kagi Search pricing
22 votes -
The internet’s richest fitness resource is a site from 1999. ExRx.net is little changed since the days of GeoCities yet beneath its bare-bones interface is a deep physiological compendium.
16 votes -
The Verge complains about ubiquitous login prompts
19 votes -
The internet is already over
7 votes -
Google lawyer warns internet will be “a horror show” if it loses landmark US Supreme Court case
13 votes -
Dear Quora, please stop holding information hostage on the internet and remove the paywall
The benefits of a free and open Internet is something that the millennial generation created long ago to make this world a better place and full of opportunities for everyone, not just those who...
The benefits of a free and open Internet is something that the millennial generation created long ago to make this world a better place and full of opportunities for everyone, not just those who can afford access to it. These benefits are something that makers of quora platform themselves used in the form of open source software like Python, Django, HTML, etc. to build that very platform in the first place.
But now, by denying those benefits to others and bringing in a paywall, quora is striking on its own proverbial roots. There are much better ways to reward their content creators than holding their answers hostage with a paywall. The plain old advertising revenue sharing model can be still used, just like Adsense does. This is a win-win thing where everyone gains including the platform, content-creator and advertiser.
It's extremely important to oppose this paywall move by quora because this attacks the very foundation of the free and open Internet as we know it. Imagine what happens tomorrow if other informative sites like StackOverflow, Wikipedia, etc. start following quora's path. Imagine the plight of the poor and under-privileged sections of the society who cannot afford costly subscription to information. And yet, as members of the evolved human race of 2023, they very much deserve access to this information.
I urge all netizens who consider themselves part of this free and open culture tribe to sign this petition and through it, convey our grievance to quora and let them know why this is wrong and what is at stake (our freedom).
If you agree with my cause, I urge you to sign this change.org petition created in this regard requesting Quora to revert the Paywall move.
5 votes -
Twitter restricted in Türkiye in aftermath of earthquake
8 votes -
Kagi's web page summarizer
8 votes -
Pakistan blocks Wikipedia for 'blasphemous content'
5 votes -
Hatepedia's guide to online hate
7 votes -
Unpopular opinion: Wikipedia's old look was much better than the new one
I say that after throwing some caution to air because I understand that every new thing has some initial resistance or pushback due to the "past comfort zone" effect. But having said that, I feel...
I say that after throwing some caution to air because I understand that every new thing has some initial resistance or pushback due to the "past comfort zone" effect.
But having said that, I feel the aesthetics of the old site was much better than the new one. But then again, I'm from the old-school world who also prefers old reddit to the new one in browsing experience, so my opinion could be biased! But even considering the modern web design, don't you think the black icons on the top right have a somewhat odd look? And the "21 languages" feels a bit verbose, the I10N icon already conveys what that dropdown is about? And finally, that scrollable sidebar on the left looks a tad ugly?
I just hope this is just a beta stage or something of Wikipedia's new version and a better one will evolve soon! But that's just one humble unpopular opinion, me thinks!
15 votes -
To use Disqus or Giscus (Github Discussions) for comments is the conundrum
I happen to host my blog https://prahladyeri.github.io/blog statically, built using Pelican and served on Github Pages. Plebs like us can't afford a backend server infrastructure, so we must rely...
I happen to host my blog https://prahladyeri.github.io/blog statically, built using Pelican and served on Github Pages. Plebs like us can't afford a backend server infrastructure, so we must rely on external services like Disqus for comment hosting.
So far, Disqus was the only fellow in town who allowed us to host comments on a free plan. Though there were some issues (bloat, adware, etc.), people seemed to be generally happy with it so far.
But now, a new fellow named giscus commenting system has entered the town, it's basically powered by github. Since I already host my blog on github pages, this should be a natural choice for me, right? Many bloggers seem to be migrating to this new system and I might too soon. The downsides however are as follows:
- It won't allow me to export existing comments from the old disqus system. Understandable to an extent as those exact author usernames may not be on the Github platform?
- Disqus interface seems to have improved all of a sudden in last few days! There no longer seem to be any ad and even the comment interface seems to be less heavy or cluttered now. It might sound a bit conspiratorial in nature but could this be the result of rising competition in the form of Giscus!
I'm a lazy status-quoist by nature and might well end up retaining disqus if they don't deviate too much from where they are now. But I'll keep an eye out on Giscus too and its progress. What do you guys suggest?
5 votes -
ChatGPT mostly breaks the parts of the internet that are already broken
15 votes -
AI: Markets for Lemons, and the Great Logging Off
6 votes -
WebTV returns with custom server emulating 1999 experience
6 votes -
How online mobs act like flocks of birds
4 votes -
What is your earliest memory of the internet?
When did you first get on the internet? What do you remember of that time?
23 votes -
Revealed: US Military bought mass monitoring tool that includes internet browsing, email data
11 votes -
Evidence suggests Wikipedia is accurate and reliable. When are we going to start taking it seriously?
17 votes -
Cloudflare blocks Kiwi Farms
36 votes -
‘Pre-bunking’ online misinformation
7 votes -
What cool online services should I sign up for while I have a burner phone?
I have a burner phone for the next month. (Lately a number of services refuse to accept my google voice number, and I refuse to share my actual number.) Are there any cool services I should try...
I have a burner phone for the next month.
(Lately a number of services refuse to accept my google voice number, and I refuse to share my actual number.)
Are there any cool services I should try out that maybe require a phone number to sign up?
5 votes -
Hide nothing
11 votes -
Rogers CEO says service back online for most Canadian customers, blames outage on 'network system failure'
17 votes -
She spent a decade writing fake Russian history. Wikipedia just noticed.
8 votes -
Minitel: France’s alternate Internet that survived until 2012
13 votes -
A face search engine anyone can use is alarmingly accurate
9 votes -
A stupendously wonderful interview with one of the founders of @ Cafe, an internet cafe that launched just as the internet was coming into the public eye
5 votes -
Is the long-extinct social network Orkut on the verge of a comeback?
5 votes -
Big Telecom convinces Missouri lawmakers to block funding for broadband competition
5 votes -
The Quasi-Official 2022 r/place Atlas
12 votes -
Move fast and break things
6 votes -
Women are splitting off from the doomsday prepper community
19 votes -
ICANN rejects Ukraine's request to block Russia from the internet
15 votes -
Wikipedia is declining: In defense of inclusionism (2018)
11 votes -
/r/antiwork: A tragedy of sanewashing and social gentrification
19 votes -
North Korea hacked him. So he took down its internet.
12 votes -
These vending machines sell internet access five minutes at a time
6 votes -
IRS will soon require selfies for online access
18 votes -
Hark back to the late 1990s with this re-creation of the dialup Internet experience
6 votes -
How the SOPA blackout happened
5 votes -
China’s next regulatory target — algorithms, the secret of many tech giants’ success
13 votes