alt.hn

3/30/2026 at 4:47:02 PM

2026 is the year that decides whether the open web will survive

https://www.anildash.com/2026/03/27/endgame-open-web/

by fsflover

3/30/2026 at 7:14:53 PM

> The deal was always simple: search engines had permission to crawl sites because they were going to be sending users to those sites. If they're hitting your site half a million times for every one user they send to your site, all they're giving you is higher costs.

Agree 100%.

by seertaak

3/31/2026 at 12:35:24 AM

Do not pay for premium accounts, use their freemium service to death! Let them die hard!

by ruslan

3/30/2026 at 5:50:17 PM

What open web?

by x86hacker1010

3/30/2026 at 5:54:12 PM

The one being smothered, trampled, and raided by the corporate web

by estimator7292

3/30/2026 at 7:33:30 PM

The one that is not closed behind paywalls or sign ups with atrocious conditions; the one that allows everybody to participate, not just rich people; the one for which listed NGOs are fighting, see, e.g., https://www.eff.org/work.

by fsflover

3/31/2026 at 3:03:06 PM

I don't understand these silent downvotes.

by fsflover