I want to be left alone (2024)

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179 points car | 1 comments | 03 Sep 25 01:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source

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rootusrootus ◴[03 Sep 25 01:25 UTC] No.45111255[source]▶

I feel this so, so much. The internet was so much better before it got commercialized and polluted with non-stop politics, hype, influencer crap, etc. I just want to be left alone, I know what I want, I don't want you to try and force it on me, trick me into it, etc. I want to have a functioning email account my friends can use where the messages won't get drowned in a sea of spam. I want a phone that only rings when someone I know calls.

We've created such a shithole, a perfect mirror of society I guess.

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reliabilityguy ◴[03 Sep 25 01:50 UTC] No.45111430[source]▶

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> The internet was so much better before it got commercialized

I wonder if we can say the same about our streets (billboards, neon signs, etc etc) compared to, say, streets 200 years ago?

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1. el_memorioso ◴[03 Sep 25 02:09 UTC] No.45111560[source]▶

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Yes, we can. A couple of years ago I drove through Maine and Vermont, and it was absolutely beautiful. Not only because of the natural beauty of those places, but because of the lack of billboards anywhere. It was nice to just enjoy the scenery without being constantly bombarded by ads. The city of São Paulo also banned ads a while back and it made the city a nicer environment to live in and revealed the beauty of some of the architecture that was previously hidden by masses of billboards.

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