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Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ (www.theverge.com)
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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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[–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

You are speculating on hypotheticals though, since no one can know for certain how things would have unfolded in a different world.

I'm not even going to argue that capitalism doesn't get you some positive outcomes for certain people.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    How am I speculating when my argument is based on reality?

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    You're speculating that an internet wouldn't have emerged without capitalism. Capitalism exists, therefore we can't know if that's true or not.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Exactly, we can’t know if that’s true or not, but we do know it emerged in reality because of capitalism. That’s all we need to make a case for capitalism, since real-life examples always outweigh imaginary ones.

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