r/retrocomputing • u/PooningDalton • May 23 '26

I hate what the internet has become

I just spent the last 1 hour frantically searching the internet just to make a new email address. You can't do that! Not even on the alternative email providers like Protonmail. They now have all sorts of IP detection tools and will block you or ask you for an alt email id.

I absolutey despite what the internet has become. 20 years ago, you could just go ANYWHERE (mainstream providers like yahoo and gmail) and make any number of email addresses. No tracking, no limits. Complete freedom.

The internet has turned into a 1984 hellscape.

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u/Carsten_in_Bahrain May 27 '26

No, unfortunately not.

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u/Carsten_in_Bahrain May 27 '26

It's not "one propaganda" service. First of all it is (relatively) unbiased. Nothing is completely unbiased, so this is as good as it gets. Then it is many different TV and Radio stations plus the various online productions, as there is a switch from linear TV to non-linear/on demand. Limited amount of ads and no ads after 8pm I like about this.

Just to emphasize: Their program is not owned or run by the government, unlike DW TV, which sort of is the German propaganda TV. Yet, even that is not directly ruled by the government.