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kachapopopowlast Monday at 1:43 AM4 repliesview on HN

This just makes me realize that entirety of the internet has just become a gateway to sell you something.


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speererlast Monday at 6:41 AM

Take heart: I checked this by taking a random screenshot, and browsing down to see how long it took me to find a commercial page. A quick sense of my trail was really encouraging:

- Open source wasm runtime

- Science transparency campaign

- Netherlands gov anti-climate change program

- open thesaurus

- GNOME conference

- France's portal of towns and cities

- Scientific measurement standardistion page

- Scientific journal

- free eBook library

- parked domain

- Linux community

- Open source graphics library

- placeholder/template blog

- A book publisher (selling books!)

It took quite a while to find a commercial site,and that itself (a bookseller) is a positive thing itself.

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armchairhackerlast Monday at 4:08 AM

Someone could make: one million screenshots of indie homepages, e.g. from https://explore.marginalia.nu/view

EDIT: I just realized, there are weird sites even on onemillionscreenshots.com. Type in obscure, older-style URLs via the search bar until you find one, then go to its screenshot. If you're lucky the surrounding sites will be more older-style and weird, less store pages.

Example: https://onemillionscreenshots.com/?q=red-lang.org, https://onemillionscreenshots.com/?q=gunnerkrigg.com

captainkrteklast Monday at 3:51 AM

It’s been a continual evolution of making everything commercialized.

4gotunameagainlast Monday at 7:13 AM

We are living in an age that in the west it is super popular to monetise your body even. Late stage capitalism.

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