@tg thank you for writing this, i tried to express the same ideas in my own way in a post on here and just got lectured about how the internet is better now, actually, just because more people from more countries are using it...
i didn't mean i didn't want to communicate with those from foreign places, i just want those damn corporate entities to stop shoving ads and other nonsense down my throat and let me use the internet connection i'm paying for for my own purposes.
i don't mind CDNs, those are important for those in other countries, but i sure do mind things born entirely out of "number go up". i'm not going to pretend like corporations have building a real, proper, thriving community in mind across multiple continents, when they're flooding the communities with bots and other spam.