| ▲ | jwr an hour ago | |
> I don't want to defend them, because they gate away a good chunk of the internet with their "bot protection" They also gate away a good many people with their "bot protection". I am extremely worried about how so many seem to have outsourced the control over who can access their websites to a company, with no second thoughts whatsoever. | ||
| ▲ | denysvitali 39 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | |
They sometimes have to comply with legal requests (which I understand), but at the same time they have a huge market share - which means that the internet is becoming less and less decentralized and more in their control. We've seen the effects of that in previous outages... | ||
| ▲ | stackghost 16 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | |
>I am extremely worried about how so many seem to have outsourced the control over who can access their websites to a company, with no second thoughts whatsoever. I think the Web is on its last legs, anyway. Generative AI and LLM-instead-of-search has destroyed what little value remained. | ||