I wouldn't say the entire shebang has changed for the worse. Parts of it, sure, such as it's community, but what else do you expect when millions upon billions of people are all using it? But there are some things that are only getting better. Charity services, technology, even Twitter and Facebook have some uses.
Pretty much agree on most of those points, though I am slightly concerned about how the internet went from a nice add on to become a basic thing needed to function in modern society. Not saying that is necessarily bad, but I think we should all give some thought at least if that is really the best thing for us all.
I think everyone will agree here that youtube has definitely gone down the shittier and there is probably no saving it.
But for the add things you could always just be an asshole like me and block literally every ad out there.
I agree on the youtube part. And in typical me fashion, I am too fucking lazy to install adblocker (though I should look into it)
I've had a YouTube account for 7 years now and it was painfult to see how goo+ added more descruction to it. And google slowly eating it in its own power trippin madness.
I don't mind commercialization, it's a natural process. I mind taking the power from people bulding internet communites and giving it to corporations. The power was really stolen with a trick. Every product and site has its end, so I can see YouTube collapsing, just really slow. It's a pity it's this kind of an ending. You can still find real treasures there but it's harder. This all makes me sad.
But in the same time I may be wrong. Things change, new websites rise, we know it!
I agree on all points here (I have been watching youtube since about 2006, made my first account in 2007, never made any videos though). I think the internet becoming more commercialized was inevitable, and is not all bad. I mean, we would not really have a lot of websites without the profit motive (Imagine what internet would be like in the USSR, if it still existed...). I also agree, that all things (empires, ideologies, people, *websites*) meet their end. As for a new site rising.... I am a super pessimist, so I don't see that happening soon, though I imagine eventually someone will get around to it.
Internet. Internet never changes.
Well, my thoughts on the matter is that it was inevitable as more people got onto the Internet and it has become, basically, an appliance rather than some newfangled technology. But I think that the Internet has changed for the better. I remember just a dozen years ago, I couldn't watch videos like I do now. Accursed Farms could not exist because the technology for the lay person did not allow for such. I could possibly download the video, but the megabyte-age that would be required on dial-up speeds would take DAYS to download a single video. I remember one time being connected for over a week just to download a single video. Now I can download gigabytes of data in a single hour.
This has opened up a wide berth of possibilities for the better. And the worse. It's human nature.
Life on the Internet has changed.
(Apologies to Fallout.)
I guess things got generally better, and true, I don't miss dial up, but it was kind of cool back in the days when the internet was really more a subculture-y than mainstream.
Though, I was generally referring to the internet of 8 or 9 years ago, not 14 or 15.
(since all these quotes are slowing down my browser):
@Alyxx Throne
Content ID does suck.
@Psychotic Ninja (seriously man, I think you need to look into a new career if you are really psychotic
)
Will watch later, though judging from the title and the topic, I generally don't like government in the internet.
BTW, Hi NSA
