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

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

by fsflover • 4 months ago

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x86hacker1010• 4 months ago

What open web?

estimator7292• 4 months ago

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

fsflover2• 4 months ago

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.

fsflover2• 4 months ago

I don't understand these silent downvotes.

seertaak• 4 months ago

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%.

techgnosis• 4 months ago

x402 is the only hope

https://www.x402.org/

ruslan• 4 months ago

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

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

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