"The web" is full of ads. Google search is unusable. Ad-blocking is fought against. Content is tailored to be as long as possible to render more ad impressions. Mobile views have 3% content and the rest is ads. 27 compliance popups about cookies and tracking and offers would show on top of the information that you're looking for, all of them rigged so you click the option that they want.
Is that the web you want to save? Let it die.
Because this romantic view of the web as this "ocean of free information" has been dead for a very long time.
I wonder why someone would even be surprised that people just moves naturally to something better? Something that's not even remotely so hostile to the user?
And yes: when VC capital dries up, AI will become equally hostile.
Then people will move to the better thing and we'll have articles about "Better thing is killing AI".
Is that the web you want to save? Let it die.
Because this romantic view of the web as this "ocean of free information" has been dead for a very long time.
I wonder why someone would even be surprised that people just moves naturally to something better? Something that's not even remotely so hostile to the user?
And yes: when VC capital dries up, AI will become equally hostile.
Then people will move to the better thing and we'll have articles about "Better thing is killing AI".