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		kccqzy 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Two upstart search engines are teaming up to take ... This seems unrealistic. Sliding the commercial slider to zero is unlikely what anyone wants. Even Wikipedia would be hidden due to its incessant thirst for donations. Visiting a nice open source repo that happens to have Patreon or GitHub sponsor? Gone. Visiting the help page for a hardware product I've already purchased? That page probably upsells you on a higher tier product and is gone. Trying to get news? All news sites have ads now and they are gone; the only ones without ads are those paid for by Big Oil or Big Pharma or similar with a hidden agenda to influence you. Instead of bending the web into something it is not, have you tried simply visiting a library and getting all information from there?

beefnugs 9 months ago [–]

God i detest that attitude: all software sucks because it makes assumptions instead of as many options for the user as possible.

rustcleaner 9 months ago | [–]

Yes. IMO ideally a good program isn't basic and easy to use for McNormie as it is functionally composable, like groups and algebras.

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