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As someone who has used the public internet since the late 80s I have turned away from it almost entirely in the past few years. Its content is similar to those free rags like SFWeekly you can pick up from a dispenser on the streets. It's largely poor quality content supported by largely poor quality, irrelevant advertising. If you want to get riled up and find a rub-n-tug to calm you down, you don't even have to leave your home anymore.

The internet is in need of a reboot.

>>kradro+(OP)
Or rather we need some reliable way to bypass the shallow net and go straight into the deep net of currently hard to find resources, and even then you might have better luck in the microfilm archives of an well stocked regional library then the internet for doing any research on historic topics.

Part of it is/was the failure of secure anonymous micropayments systems from escaping capture by shady actors and anti privacy regulators.

Back in the olden days you used to go down to the library and obtain an printout of any article ever published for pennies pr article without having to commit to an subscription for the paper the article was printed in and we need that system to move online in an meaningful way.