# Shields up | Seth's Blog

<https://seths.blog/2023/03/shields-up-2/>

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## What Jamie wrote

Godin wishing for a web that was not so full of "junk".

> Adblockers are one of the most popular innovations of the last few years. What I want is a junkblocker. A big button on my browser that says “shields up.”

Funny enough, this is a potential use case for some agent software. Do we end up with an Internet so full of garbage, fake content, and tracking that the humans that have the means simply never go onto it, and instead rely on intelligent agent software to venture out into this apocalyptic digital wasteland and do what they want done?

Maybe. Could be a fun short film.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT247: Weekly Thing #247 / New York, Fingerprints, Snitch](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/247/), Notable

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## Elsewhere

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