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Again, the meme is not about the internet in 2000s. It is just about people sharing out of fun vs. “creators” wanting to monetize every little shit.

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It’s just such a common misconception that there was no ads in the ‘old Internet’, that’s all I was pointing out. There seems to be a nostalgic false memory that Internet back then didn’t have ads which is hilarious if you were there to see what it was like

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Ads are not the same thing as insanely granular data harvesting.

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Yeah, because if anything is better than granular data harvesting, it was ActiveX scripts wreaking havoc on your machine just by opening a webpage, disguised as ads.

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