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Internet developments have gone from exciting to dreadful. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Idk if this is the right community for this conversation, but it's been on my mind and I want to share it with someone.

In the 00's every new thing we heard about the internet was exciting. There were new protocols, new ways to communicate, new ways to share files, new ways to find each other. Every time we heard anything new about the internet, it was always progress.

That lasted into the early teens and then things started changing. Things started stagnating. Now we're well into the phase where every new piece of news we hear is negative. New legislations, new privacy intrusions, new restrictions, new technologies to lock content away and keep us from sharing, or seeing the content we were looking for. New ways to force ads.

At one point the Internet was my most favorite thing in the world. Now I don't know if I even like it anymore. I certainly don't look forward to hearing news about it. It's sad, man. We've lost a lot. The mega corps took the internet from us, changed it from a million small sites that people created because they had big ideas, or were passionate about small ones, and turned it into a few enormous sites with no new ideas, no passion, just an insatiable desire for money.

We're at the end of an era, and unlike the last 20 years of progress, I don't think most of us will like what the next era brings.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I actually despise the way banking has changed. Elder people, barely familiar with making calls from a mobile phone, are expected to use their phone banking app as a security token, to say something that happens every day. And that's talking about people that can actually afford a mobile phone with internet access.

[–] Bulletdust 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Furthermore, I've personally dealt with a number of elderly people scammed out of their life savings because they unknowingly gave scammers full remote access to their phone - The phone that contains the banking app seniors barely understand, the same phone their SMS based MFA codes are sent to.

To add insult to injury, the banks are refusing to reimburse any funds lost as they state the client allowed an outsider to access their account and transfer all available funds.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is outrageous. I can see it happening all the time but I wish there were more visibility about this.

[–] Bulletdust 1 points 1 year ago

100% agreed. Imagine all of your reserves gone at such a vulnerable age and no recourse whatsoever. I thought your money was meant to be safer in a bank.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Old people can still go into the branch if that's more their speed, assuming there are still any branches around. My credit union shut the local branch down and opened up some stupid branch that doesn't even have cash on hand.

[–] Bulletdust 1 points 1 year ago

Not in all cases. In a number of cases elderly people no longer hold licences and getting to and from the bank isn't terribly realistic.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

In theory, yes they can, in practice employees and elder people don't work very well together, and these employers are there just for appearances.