Comment on The internet is bad ux, everybody. There's too many choices.

finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I thought about it, but immediately dismissed it cause they would lose their entire user base. It would be far too complex to have whitelist based access, as soon as anyone realized how restrictive it is they would bail

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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It’s kind of interesting to think about it in practice because on one hand the number of ISPs is limited in many areas, taking away the competitive choice, but on the other hand the opportunity to pull this stunt has been around for years in places like the USA and nobody has succeeded so far.

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    • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s been essentially tried since near the beginning with AOL. Their dialup service required you to have their branded browser (customized Internet Explorer) open to stay connected. On that browser you could only connect to sites in their walled garden whitelist.

      Luckily, you could just minimize their browser and open regular IE or Netscape to bypass it.

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