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I understand your complaints, I have the same one. On the other hand sites like my own that have a light ad footprint are also seeing their ad revenue decline. If I want to serve you ads to view my web site and you choose to view my web site you will see ads. There is no question about whether or not I can do this, the only question is whether or not I want to pull the trigger. As ad revenues contiue to decline because of adblocker more sites will be pulling that trigger.
I don't know about this one but user profiles on sites like this are usually blocked as SEO measure.
I think you like hearing yourself talk, you're not engaging other posters.
I skipped 99% of those posts. Rambling on a forum doesn't get many responses (or incorrect ones) because no one reads it. After about the 10th sentence, when the subject matter switches to a topic not related to the original, I fade out quickly. Then when I see the next huge, rambling, dissertation about something I'm certain has no relation to the original subject (again) I skip it and look for the responses. That's where the meat usually is. Thanks to everyone who reads all that crap and answers in one way or another.
What I find fascinating is that all these problems the OP is seeing - I'm not. I wonder if the reason isn't a slow Internet, but a slow computer, or no extensions added to the browser to block it all.
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My simple theory is this:
Using 1995 as a bench mark, both internet speeds and quantity of users have increased. But it is the rate of increased users that has been exponential. For every internet user in 1995, 10-20 more users have been added. So take one million users in 1995, and that becomes 10-20million users today! 50million users in 2000 has become billions now.
And an increasing percentage of those 'users' are not humans: The computers that regulate water levels in a multi-reservoir water district. The machines that monitor and provide real-time data on street traffic volumes, our national defense system, the servers and switchers that coordinate timing of programs on the radio and TV. Financial market servers that operate 24/7 free of human intervention. Automatic supply re-stocking at supermarkets, hospitals, and factories. Not to mention both our copper and cellular telephone networks. And on and on. Enough to cancel out even significant gains in speed and reliability of internet services around the globe.
Some days it's enough to make you wonder: 'Am I back on DIAL-UP internet, or what? lol
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