The amount of websites isn’t what eventually consolidated. Internet traffic did, and the value of domains went way down. That’s why it’s described as a bubble.

Anywhere and everywhere that isn’t a scam site. Etsy, ebay, local and small business websites directly, b&h, sweetwater, newegg.

I just stopped shopping at amazon altogether. My online shopping experience has improved a lot since then.

The vast majority of businesses don’t own domains and host their own websites which is what the .com bubble was. They host pages on Etsy, Facebook, squarespace, WordPress etc etc.

LLMs are not AI. They’re content stealing blenders wearing a name tag that says AI on it.

The modern tech industry is all about building products that generate hype to impress the shareholders. Building good functional products to impress the consumer isn’t necessary if you can simply put on a flashy show for the geriatric billionaires.

They’ll do that anyway. They engage only in ideological proclamation, not critical analysis. They think truth is dictated by consensus.

You deal with these people by disenfranchising them and removing their opportunities to gain power, not by engaging them directly in debate. Never engage with an echo chamber if you don’t want the ideology of that echo chamber to infect others like a virus.

They were always this way. It’s sociopathy, not age that causes this.

It is supported in the nightly build and full support is in the works currently.

https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/hevc-support/idc-p/63424/highlight/true#M36557

It used to be worse. Pop up ads are mostly a thing of the past. The web used to be an advertisement shit hole and there were no ad blockers back then.

Regardless, you’re right. I don’t understand why or how people could be ignorant of the existence of adblock in 2024 unless they’re boomers.

100%

The whole problem with companies like Amazon is that hardly anyone in charge of them seems to care about long term sustainability. They all just invest enough effort to squeeze out some short term profits, earn their bonuses and then leave for another company to do it all again. Nobody is interested in sustainability because there is no incentive to. They’re playing hot potato with the collapse of the company.

Now they can replace them without paying unemployment and pay the new workers a lower wage. This is what they wanted to happen. Mega corporations are a problem we need to solve as a society.

aaaww but I already got my gas can and matches out

corporations are a problem we need to solve as a society.

All the same, I’m glad someone is standing up to those litigious fuckwagons.

Because those shareholders (billionaires) and corporations drained the consumers of all of their money and now they’re the most profitable demographic to market to.

Don’t waste your time feeding the troll

Trump and his followers are truth proclaimers, not truth seekers. They believe truth is dictated by consensus, volume, devotion, etc because that’s what their religion and their narcissistic delusions teach them. Everyone else knows that truth is something to be analyzed and determined, not proclaimed.

So in general, yeah it’s a waste of time paying attention to what their reaction is. They’re a predictable bunch.

I stopped at “normies”. Lose the ego and grow up if you want people to listen to your opinions.