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Way, way too many websites. I have to research all of them just to use one? I have choice paralysis! The corporations are right, I shouldn't be trusted to make decisions for myself, and the internet should be like cable.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

65% of Nigerians, and 61% of Indonesians agree with the statement that "Facebook is the Internet"

This is extremely worrying.

[–] TriflingToad 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I used to want this unironically, id pay $30 a month to not see any ads AT ALL. However my mind has changed. I now see ad companies as immoral and, quite frankly, evil.

I would rather not only not give them money, but I choose to use a Ublock Origin fork AdNauseam that 'clicks' on all the ads. This seems counter intuitive, but since some advertisers pay per click so clicking a total of a combined 10,000 advertisements on my desktop/laptop/steam deck/whatever costs them a LOT of money, and I've bought 0 products from advertisements because i haven't seen any advertisements!

The best part is that you get an image of all the ads. It's super cool to look and see what they want you to buy and you can play the guessing game of "What Was My ADHD Ass Looking At?!"

(this SS is from ~2 months in iirc, now I'm ~6-10 months in, I'll have to check when I get home.)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It's fucked when the unlimited option in this meme is less then I pay for internet now. I pay over 200 a month just for the fucking internet. Fuck Cox cable and shit choices I don't have in my town.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Fuck that is expensive. £24/month here and I use 4G so I can take my router anywhere and it just works.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Christ, I knew Australian ISP pricings were exy but that's absurd.

I'm looking at going to a 500 / 250? (Might be 100 up) Plan for around 140 AUD per month, I'd much rather have symmetrical Gbit but that's well put of my price range.

$200 USD is around $315 AUD currently, that's a whole ballpark of fucked up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Yes it is. But that is the price to have gigabyte internet with unlimited data. Unfortunately without that it cost me more than 200 a month. Because they charge 50 dollars every gig you go over your data cap. So I pay 100 bucks so we don't. Because I have 3 gamers in the house streams.

I tried to go lower but every fucking time I get nailed with the limit and end up 300 dollar bills. It's shit but all I can get here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'd never heard of AdNauseam; does it replace uBlock entirely? Is it possible to run both?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Just run adnauseam on its own. I use it too, my thinking is that I am going to be tracked anyway. So instead of trying and almost certainly failing at avoiding it, you just overwhelm them with so much random data that it becomes worthless.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Makes sense, thanks!

[–] LH0ezVT 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It is literally a fork of uBO

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Got it, thanks for clarifying.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Everything**

**Sites only we deemed brand safe for you to consume

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Well of course.

2400€/m (gov clearance needed) for static IP address.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 4 days ago (2 children)

This is literally what happens when people defend first-past-the-post! “More than 2 viable choices at the ballot box is scary!” “I need my corporate politicians to protect me from using my brain”

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I’m no fan of FPTP, but that point doesn’t apply here. Democrats have consistently supported Net Neutrality.

Net Neutrality was first legislated by the Democratic majority in the FCC in 2015. Then it was repealed by the Republican majority, championed by Pai and Carr in 2018. It was reinstated in 2024 when the Democrats regained majority of the FCC.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Can't say I've ever seen anyone defend the system in play, just recognizing that it exists and until it's changed in whatever means possible that playing the protest/spoiler is likely to make things worse.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

PACK 1a

€5/month

Get access to "my self-hosted VPN + obfuscation proxy"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

IP over WhatsApp?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago (3 children)

It's already like this in many countries in Asia. They offer data pacakages that are 50GB (for example) for social media data , and only 1GB for regular internet

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

my former ukrainian data plan only had 100mb per day, but 10gb on Youtube and unlimited social media (e.g. facebook and reddit + messenger apps like viber, signal and telegram)

to be fair, its not the norm here and it was cheap af back when i was using it (around 1-2$/mo while all other data plans were over 4-6$)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

also i was using a vpn with an ssn spoofing feature to make it think all of the websites/services i was visiting were Youtube (that only worked for tcp traffic tho, not udp so no gaming)

and was using telegram bots to download flarge files (there are bots that will take a url and will either return a file located there or a rendered web page)

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

You think that's choice paralysis, I've got 5,200 movies, 260 series, quarter million songs on my Plex. It's exhausting.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago

Why would you do that? You can just watch Star Wars recycle the same story over and over.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I want precisely zero of those web sites and apps

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Then I guess you need the $100 teir option

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

$99999 to access lemmy

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Where the fuck is all the usefull stuff, it's only socials? Where's maps, or a shared drive

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

$100/month tier of course

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Wasn't net neutrality already killed in the us?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 days ago

The Biden FCC briefly brought it back but it was quickly killed by a Bush-appointed judge based on the conservative majority Supreme Court's ruling on Loper Bright v. Raimondo which ended the practice of Chevron Deference.

Chevron Deference was a policy that allowed federal agencies to be the interpreters of ambiguous regulations, and in this particular case the uncertainty was whether or not the internet counted as a "utility" akin to electricity and water. The updated interpretation is that the FCC doesn't have the right to treat the internet as a utility if it is not explicitly defined as a utility by law, so net neutrality was killed.

There is still hope that a later, more progressive Congress and administration could pass regulation declaring the internet to be a utility, or that a later court could change their minds on that interpretation, but for now it's not looking good.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I must be stupid for not realizing a whitelist ISP implementation, I always imagined it would be more like a blacklist.

[–] Pika 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I thought about it, but immediately dismissed it cause they would lose their entire user base. It would be far too complex to have whitelist based access, as soon as anyone realized how restrictive it is they would bail

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's kind of interesting to think about it in practice because on one hand the number of ISPs is limited in many areas, taking away the competitive choice, but on the other hand the opportunity to pull this stunt has been around for years in places like the USA and nobody has succeeded so far.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

It's been essentially tried since near the beginning with AOL. Their dialup service required you to have their branded browser (customized Internet Explorer) open to stay connected. On that browser you could only connect to sites in their walled garden whitelist.

Luckily, you could just minimize their browser and open regular IE or Netscape to bypass it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

I was talking to someone online who is in Ghana and this is how it is there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Snapchat belongs in the free tier.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

What's the alternative to the corporate web? Tor? Usenet?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

If the full extent of this kind of internet existed, Tor would be completely irrelevant on it. Imagine that there essentially are no other sites than what's approved by isps. It's the cable model.

Not that such a wild vision of the internet has any chance of taking hold now days. The point of the thread was to make fun of the people who are complaining about lemmy providing too much choice.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Worst case, could have regional intranets. Like people just connect their routers with eachother. Sneakernet over large media between disconnected regions.

But that's me getting way ahead of myself.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (3 children)

It’s a minimum of $20 to talk to girls

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (3 children)

They could theoretically implement this because of unencrypted domain names and ISP blocks, but if they actually tried this, that DNS over HTTPS thing Mozilla was working on - I'm sure it would get a lot more attention, be rolled out very soon, and disable ISPs being able to see or control which domains you were accessing.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

I've been using DNS over https for a year or so now, it's the most traffic on my network.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] ohellidk 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Could a VPN solve this nonsense?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago

Not if the only "allowed" services don't include that VPN.

There are nearly always ways around this sort of thing, but it gets exponentially harder as soon as VPNs get blocked.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Anyone else remember AOL Keywords? Lol

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