I think you mean website developers are so reliant on JS these days, that they think they can't write a site without such heavy use of it that sneezing at it will break their site.
Javascript does some good stuff. When I'm building something, I make sure that the good stuff it does is on the same domain as the website on which I want it done, though. Your mileage will vary.
Of course I use Google for searching, but I've moved on to Startpage at present to minimize my Google footprint. Youtube existed before Google bought it, and it was unarguably a better place, if not quite as convenient with respect to speed or uploading.
And that is what I think you've missed, here in the comments of a story about how onerous it is to avoid becoming a data point in dozens, hundreds of advertisers' and Snowden-knows-what-else's data files:
We don't have a choice any more.
Back when the internet was hard to use, we didn't have mom or grandma our Cousin Suzy to worry about shining a light on us. The advertising you seem to celebrate has undoubtedly expanded the internet and 'free' content availability, but this is the very situation which I'm "overly nostalgic" against.
For the record, I'm not against ads or seeing them; I'm against that relationship of one-ad-on-one-site and the rest of my browsing habits being linked or traceable or contributory outside of that scenario where I've seen an ad on one particular site. You'll say that these interlinks and the industry behind it have 'made money' out of views, but, again, my position is that the Internet is for things the Host loves, not an opportunity to make money from the mere fact of traffic.
Every one of them free for you and paid for partially or entirely with ad revenue.
Money is not the only cost. And we're barely into the debate of what the real cost of 'free' sites is.
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The web is largely funded by advertisement.
And that fact is largely to blame for most of the problems I have with the internet.
The internet used to be a labor of love: if you loved something, you had a site. It wasn't about making a buck off of people. Call me whatever name you like, but I'd rather 300 baud of people who love what they're hosting than 1Gbps of adware.
Unfortunately, for all the talk of micro-payments, I've never seen a serious attempt at implementing them.
So the problem isn't that commercial websites are greedy, it's that banks, et al, are greedy? Surely there's a simple solution staring everyone in the face that I can't think of right now either.
Also, I'm not discounting the fact that Google is a big part of the Ad Thing's perpetuation. Finding [N] on the internet used to be done differently when you weren't guaranteed money for it...
If the threat is that all the commercial enterprises are going to vanish from the internet and we're going to end up back in a time when the internet was for enthusiasts generating and trading information and content among each other without having to monetize absolutely every fucking page load, then by all means -- I'm on board.
This, so fucking hard. Used to be you spent hundreds a month on modem fees to give your BBS content away.
(How do you think much of your computing stuff made its way from China to begin with?)
In cases of individual parts?
A group has been working on re creating the orignal SWG (haven't check on the project since last spring), but I would play it again in a heartbeat.
There are actually a few groups trying that.
I'm not affiliated with the devs of SWGEmu, but I have been monitoring their progress as a member for some time now.
They've got a working game, and a lot of passion, but not much free-time to work on it. Check it out if you've still got your old disks!
"It's the best thing since professional golfers on 'ludes." -- Rick Obidiah
