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> The internet has strayed apart from its original philosophy. It used to be very straightfoward
By "the internet" you actually mean "the web", and when the web was introduced into an internet which at the time ran almost entirely on plain text, it was the *very definition* of "unnecessarily fancy", with formatted headings and text, inline images, etc.
If you want the web to be like it was, just turn off JS in your browser, add a user-stylesheet to override all sites' CSS and set it back to your browser default. Nobody actually does it because the user-experience is all kinds of ass, but you have the option if you want.
Ultimately - I would argue *empirically* - most people prefer a dynamic, active web with client-side scripting, *or else they would turn off browser features en masse and website owners would be forced to support users without those features*.
As statistically almost nobody actually does it, it's safe to assume that most people don't want it, small irritants like CSS popups and ad-scripts aside.
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The reason the experience is ass is because the web wasn't designed for it. Gemini is.
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