22 points by 1970-01-01 4 days ago | 6 comments

xacky
99% of the web is just scraper fodder now.
- shevy-java
  It indeed has changed. I wonder if we can change it back.
  Someone ask Alan Kay how to fix today's web.
ece
So what's with the increased variance since 2021? Better tracking of pages maybe...
shevy-java
> Since January 15, 2025 we cannot receive any data from Google. They make it very difficult to automatically retrieve data from the search engine
Google became truly Evil. The sooner this evil company is gone the better.
Meanwhile I think we need a new variant of the world wide web. The old one is too easily broken, e. g. by Google and its pathetic attempt to install a private version here. Also aided by AI slop. Plans are inter-connected here.
wackget
> "size of the World Wide Web (The Internet)"
The WWW is not the internet.
- Insanity
  Yah but the average person (layman) reading this won't know or care much, they'll understand what the website tries to show.