The so-called "clearnet" www has suffered from "developers" hell bent on "scraping" and crawling to support their so-called "tech" companies. The situation has gotten worse with "AI" companies scraping and crawling for LLM "training data"

These companies also attempt to create "walled gardens" to enable behavioral surveillance and ad targeting on pools of "logged in" users

Many of these websites are hidden behind "CDNs" that try to force visitors to use surveillance and advertising-friendly web browsers, allegedly to protect them from those developers hell bent on scraping/crawling (who they refer to as "bots")

The end result is that in _some cases_ it can actually be more difficult for me to do information retrieval from popular websites than from so-called "darknet" sites

I prefer textmode to graphics (e.g., X11, etc.) and I'm not a fan of the so-called "modern" browser. As such, .onion sites are more user-friendly for me

I like the design of using public keys, or portions thereof, as hostnames. No ICANN registrar "domain name business" and extortion from trademark holders

The point is that regardless of what might be offered over the "darknet", its design actually makes it more accessible to me

It supports commerce but there's no surveillance or ads so it's quick and efficient

IMHO, this is what the "clearnet" www should be like, but isn't