[TriLUG] Linux From Scratch

[Brian via TriLUG]

On 3/4/25 18:00, via TriLUG wrote:
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
> 
> There are people I know in the (internet) publishing field and they 
> seems to agree that there's something to that theory...
> Most stuff published on the internet only has one single purpose: drive 
> traffic to a page for long enough so that the ad impression counts. 
> Whether the content is slop or not, meaningful or not, true or false, 
> makes no difference. Their business isn't publishing anymore, it's 
> collecting tracking money (what used to be called 'advertising revenue' 
> but really is tracking revenue).
> 

Oh, this is absolutely true.  Google search for just about anything 
instructional these days and all the top hits will be sites that all 
regurgitate each others' scraped content, interspersed HEAVILY with 
advertisements.  To the point where a mobile user is left with maybe two 
lines of useful text visible on screen at any given time.  As an aside, 
I've had pretty good results using ProtonVPN to block ads on these types 
of pages on my mobile device.