Article 4MBHY How would you fix the internet if you could? Tell us

How would you fix the internet if you could? Tell us

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Julia Carrie Wong in San Francisco
from Technology | The Guardian on (#4MBHY)

The internet is full of annoyances designed to make you click here, watch this and keep scrolling for more. How could it be better?

Auto-play video ads. Aggressive pop-ups. Invisible ad trackers.

The internet of 2019 is full of annoyances and dark patterns, designed to make us click this button, ignore that disclaimer, and just keep scrolling, all under the watchful eye of surveillance tools that the vast majority of us don't realize are recording our every mouse click.

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