I want to be left alone (2024)

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.

> 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?