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Part of me really hopes the internet heads into the crapper within the next couple years. It's time for a reboot anyway, to clear the cruft.

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I don't know if the issue is the internet, I think it's the platforms that make up the internet. Google search has gone down the drain for me. 10 years ago I would find content from many sources, in depth blog posts and articles well written.

Now every search is results from a small hand full of websites, full of top 10 lists you have to click through and one paragraph articles where I learn nothing.

Don't believe me? Try to Google any medical condition.

Back in the old days, the internet was run by government agencies and universities. Universities invented the protocols. Companies provided only the hardware.

Nowadays, companies run the internet and own our data.

Let's go back to the old model. Let universities research federated protocols/algorithms and such. Let the government own the fiber. And let companies build the hardware.

"Let the government own the fiber..."

So instead of getting the backdoor they always wanted they literally have the entire house, foundation and all.

Reboot the internet with IPv6 and now all your internal devices will be openly addressable to the internet. I see nothing good coming from that.

NAT is not a firewall. There's no reason you can't hide your LAN from a WAN connection with IPv6.

Exactly right. When I enabled IPv6 on my home LAN, I made very sure that only those hosts (and ports!) I wanted open were available to the outside world. Otherwise, incoming IPv6 is DROP by default.

This is strange, oft-repeated, mostly incorrect argument. Almost every modern router, if it handles IPv6, handles IPv6 without NAT but with a firewall. Most consumer routers just have ALLOW ALL outbound, ALLOW EXISTING inbound, default firewall rules that would be just fine for IPv6.

For a start your internal devices shouldn't have an Internet-routable prefix assigned.

Secondly, refer to other comments re: firewalls

Maybe BBS 2.0 will appear everyone will go back to phone lines and modems.

What makes you think anything better will emerge from the wreckage?

We were just talking about this same thing on /r/seo today. The search results are getting poorer and poorer and pbn’s are eating relevant search results.

What is a pbn?

private blog network.

An seo company will buy a bunch of recently expiring domains related to a specific topic, and do it in a way that hides who the owners are. They build blogs on these sites, and fill them with the lowest grade content. I've see stuff that's "spun" (plagiarized content where a percentage of words have been replaced with synonyms, so that it appears original) and other stuff that's farmed out to writers in developing countries who work for pennies (A lot of articles with no real substance, written in poor english.)

The owner then links all the blogs to each other, so they appear to have domain authority. Then they sell back links to their customers. This fools Google into thinking your website is trustworthy (because everyone is linking to it) and you get better placement in search results.

In short, its a way anyone can buy popularity online.

I don't know. However, I doubt anyone can come along at this point and beat FB, Amazon, Google, Apple and Microsoft, etc. without a major shakeup.

They are not synonymous with "the internet".

They kinda are... unfortunately.

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