SmilingSolaris comments on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’

Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year 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)

[–] SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

The telecom companies got paid by the government to do it, they just as easily could have paid themselves to do it but we as a society are allergic to the idea of taking money out of the hands of poor billionaires and their potential profits

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[+] Hikki88@lemmy.dbzer0.com -19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That doesn’t undermine my argument that it was ultimately because of the capitalists that the internet spread in the first place.

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[–] SmilingSolaris@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

It does undermine your argument though, because you are saying that it only spread because of capitalists. I'm telling you it spread because of government funding and capitalists were just the medium by which the funding was used. The capitalist part is replaceable and unnecessary.

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[–] Hikki88@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago

I'm telling you it spread because of government funding and capitalists were just the medium by which the funding was used.

It doesn’t work just by you saying it. According to multiple sources, the government clearly didn’t want to fund commercial internet and largely backed out during the 90s.