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hunter

(40,830 posts)
7. I rarely see or hear advertising on any of my electronic devices...
Sat Apr 25, 2026, 01:18 PM
Apr 25

... but maintaining the levees that hold back the floods of shit is a constant chore.

I've been on the internet since the late 'seventies and don't like what's become of it.

It will probably reach the point where I'm using whitelists instead of blacklists for my browsing . I'm already doing that for television.

I don't have an Android or Apple phone. I use my little flip phone for talking with people and to send and receive texts. There's no email on my phone, and no apps. I don't check any of my personal email accounts regularly anyways.

Democratic Underground is my only social media.

I can easily imagine the internet reaching a point of such intrusiveness and wretchedness that I abandon it entirely.

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