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The same could be said for any form of communication, really.
I remember when phones used to be good. Now it's all
I remember when mail used to be good. Now it's all
Will happen to every new medium eventually. It's inevitable under capitalism.
I think a lot about a post I saw that said "you hate every piece of capitalism but refuse to connect the dots to see that picture"
Rss? Granted I haven't touched it in years so idk if it's still good
It's still good. It's great even. The best part is you can't "leak" an RSS address so when you subscribe to something you won't be added to spam without you knowing. It's a great medium.
Ah, so now we definitely know why it was quietly swept under the rug!
Thank goodness we have the amazing future now:
--Every stupid webpage ever
Unrestricted, glorious, arbitrary code at the accidental flick of an "allow" button. Normies everywhere getting inundated with random loud full-page video ads from chrome notifications that recursively cascade-subscribed them to a million other chrome notifications.
Telemarketers have been around for a long, long time (Wikipedia claim "...the practice of contacting potential customers by telephone originated in the late 19th century.").
I personally recall a lot more telemarketing in the 90s, though I was a kid and just passed the phone to mom or dad. But that was also a time when caller ID was a luxury, and not everyone had answering machines.
The last time I had a landline was 16 years ago when my wife briefly had a home office. Her employer required the landline as part of the home office setup (they paid for it).
We got spammed by robocallers every 5-10 minutes all day long and half the night. It was so bad that my wife never knew when a work call was coming in and had to let every call go to voicemail.
We didn't unplug the phone just turned the answering machine to silent. We still got calls on a supposedly disconnected number.