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Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 day ago by artifex@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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For months, Google has maintained that the web is “thriving,” AI isn’t tanking traffic, and its search engine is sending people to a wider variety of websites than ever. But in a court filing from last week, Google admitted that “the open web is already in rapid decline” (with regard to advertising, kinda-sorta)

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 hour ago

But in a court filing

Why is this legal? It's always like this with large companies. " Yeah we were just lying to everyone all the time, but this filing for court is the absolute truth!"

It's the same as Fox News which always says they're fair and balanced news and they bring the news nobody else does, but in a court filing... They suddenly claim that no reasonable person would believe them to be a real news organization... Uuuh huh...

Any court should dismiss this filing immediately and punish them for submitting a false filing, or continuously lying outside the courts. This sort of crap should be inadmissible.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 8 points 1 hour ago

They are making it happen.

[–] MattTheProgrammer@lemmy.world 9 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

There will be such a thing that arises as a "grey net" I think. Not the dark web, but also not mainstream internet.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 8 points 1 hour ago

So basically the fediverse?

I mean at some point even websites seem grey net when the mainstream internet is basically AOL Future.

I think if there's going to be an Eternal August version of the internet, it will be hidden in plain sight created by some of the same people that want to use it.

[–] Blemgo@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

I think the term you are looking for is "Deep Net", although it originally meant websites that weren't indexed by web searches.

[–] MangioneDontMiss@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

Helloooo darkweb!

[–] frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 20 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Not to mention a lot of site traffic is now getting tanked by the UK blocking everything because of the "online safety act" that's actually anything but (source)

Most recently my friend couldn't access a Reddit post about a dental issue of all things because it got marked as NSFW and it asked for her face or ID (can't remember) so she could see it (I ended up making her download TOR)

[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

And Reddit completely.blocks you from reading when coming from a VPN exit, unless you are logged in (at least with. MullvadVPN).
Brave new world... :-(

[–] frenchfryenjoyer@lemmings.world 13 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

Not if you put "old." before the "Reddit" into the address bar, the old UI doesn't force you to login

At least on TOR

[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 hour ago

Thanks, will try that!

[–] MrPoopbutt@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

It is a 50/50 shot for me if it makes you login with old or not

[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 74 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

I miss the old internet. Thanks capitalists

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 17 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Late stage capitalism ftw

[–] FantasmaNaCasca@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Late stage cancer is still cancer.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Yup, it wouldn't have gotten to late stage if it was treated before it went metastatic

[–] netuno@lemmy.cif.su 24 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

The problem for years has been good stuff being drowned in slop.

It's not going to be fixed.

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 hours ago

Capitalism has distilled its parasitic behaviour down to a science to suck the life out of anything that dare to stand out, and leave its corpse dry, for the sake of more profits.

[–] artifex@piefed.social 5 points 4 hours ago

Ever since search engine “optimization” became a thing — which was not long after the Internet was opened to the public in the ‘90s.

[–] NoodlePoint@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

Doctorow is never wrong.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 24 points 15 hours ago

By their hands

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