This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
nobody is going to want to create new content when they get paid nothing or almost nothing for doing so.
that's a lie
so basically back to internet 1.0, sounds good actually.
Old youtube was a pretty cool place and nobody got paid
Agreed.
Letting Google break the law for years with illegal anti-competitive practices is now hurting everyone else's ability to earn money.
I wonder if we have the combined will to do anything about it, or if we will wait and hope the invisible hand of the market will fix it....
if we will wait and hope the invisible hand of the market will fix it....
Have we lost faith in our handsome businessman? /s
Don't take this the wrong way, but fuck your business model. The internet was supposed to be open and be ours, and you stole it for profit.
To be honest: you can still make your own website, and in many ways big companies are actually making it easier through open-source projects and stuff like Let's Encrypt. The web industry is remarkably open compared to what big companies do in other industries. A lot of the standards meetings and stuff you can just go to and give your opinion. Or ignore the standards and fork it yourself. This alarmism I fear will make people not take the actually alarming things like encryption bans or ID requirements seriously.
Only for some things, though. If you host your own e-mail these days, chances are, you're going to have a very difficult time sending them anywhere without risking them being deleted, or automatically thrown into spam folders.
True, but sadly that's because of what became a genuine user safety concern
also independent of that, fuck cloudflare
Lol. Yup 100%
maybe their business model. trust me. they'll find a way to monetize the zero click internet too. then it's back to square one
I believe this is why tech execs and investors are so hot on pushing AI into everything. They’ll control everyone’s digital experience and you can 100% count on being force fed ads and paid propaganda. Embrace, extend, extinguish
Yep. They have direct control over the flow of information.
Honestly, Metal Gear Solid 2 was on fucking point.
And so was 4.
i like to publish content so that bots can scrape it and serve it to people without attribution i think it's good i think ill publish some more interesting stuff right away
Can someone check in with the inventor of the web and ask him what the web's business model is?
I didn’t come here for heartwarming stories; yet here I am.
Everyone is too busy doomscrolling TikTok to notice.
This is all extrapolated from google's self published survey of how their users interact with their search results. Approximately 60% of users don't click anything after a search. Personally I think that is because users have found their results to be seo garbage and not worth clicking on... but that's just my opinion.
Of course they don't click anything. Google search has just become a front-end for Gemini, the answer is "served" up right at the top and most people will just take that for Gospel.
I've watched a lot of students do a search after I tell them to research something, look through a few of the summaries, then look at me in defeat. I have to tell them to actually click some links to try and find an answer
I went to college for networking but the most productive class I've ever had where I learned the most about the internet was instead back in high school. This teacher would make 20 page packets with the most obscure questions like what's the weight of model number 62xRG4 (some obscure car part or something) and he told us to google it. We would spend entire classes just searching for information we would never use, but it drilled into me how to go about finding the information I need. It's been utterly invaluable. Thank you Mr Ward.
I love this, so much. Blue Links have been the most critical pass to my future, across my entire life.
Purple links often, too. I can't imagine surrendering the ability to sift through information with my own eyes and hands and brain.
Are they still defending the fact they host Stormfront?
Host_ed_, right? They did drop them at some point, I thought.
Good. Maybe we can go back to paying for our services instead of getting tracked everywhere we go.
Err... you think you're not being tracked when you spend money?
Wow.
When Orwell predicted universal surveillance he never anticipated that the people themselves would install the cameras, let alone pay a subscription.
That’s not what will happen. We will have to pay AND be tracked. They are not going to give anything up.
