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JKCalhounyesterday at 6:23 PM1 replyview on HN

Perhaps we're at last watching the internet die.


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NoMoreNicksLeftyesterday at 6:42 PM

Yes, but we did that over the last 15 years. We just never realized that's what we were seeing.

It only clicked for me a few weeks ago, in one thread or another here when I realized that no one could ever do what Google did once: Cloudflare and other antibot technologies have closed off traditional search-as-the-result-of-web-crawling permanently. It's not that no one will do it because they think there's no money in it, or that no one will do it because the upfront costs are gigantic... literally it can no longer be done.

The internet died.

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