[TriLUG] Linux From Scratch

[William Sutton via TriLUG]

I highly recommend uBlock Origin as well.

William Sutton

On Wed, 5 Mar 2025, Brian via TriLUG wrote:

> On 3/4/25 18:00, via TriLUG wrote:
> <snip>
>> 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.
>
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