My tech tinkering nowadays is filled with figuring out things that don’t work because of all the ways we try to make the Internet half decent. A site doesn’t load because of a blocker. A video doesn’t play because of a VPN. A page can’t be read because I block ads. It never ends. Tinkering is no fun anymore.

Something has gotten lost in this escalation. Sure I can view videos on YouTube without ads, but overall the Internet is still a terrible experience.