It’s the End of the Web as We Know It
https://pc.net/news/2025-06-14/the_end_of_the_web
Per Christensson explains how search monopolies have scraped and stolen website content without atrribution and crippled traffic to independently developed blogs, homepages and reference sites.
A.I. is the end.
“It was fun while it lasted, but the web we’ve known for the past 25 years is coming to an end”.
From BBC.com – “Over the last two years, a series of updates to Google Search amount to a dramatic upheaval to the Internet’s most powerful tool, complete with an unprecedented AI feature. Will Google save the web, or destroy it?”
Over the last two years, updates meant to make Search more “helpful” devastated many website owners who say they follow Google’s best practices. (Source: Semrush) (Credit: BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240524-how-googles-new-algorithm-will-shape-your-internet/
A $16.5 million settlement? The stolen data was worth much more than that. This is a slap on the wrist. This was a HUGE breach of privacy and an even larger theft of personal information.
Who Is being compensated? In this case, no one… Yet.
You can check here: https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/refunds
Continue reading When Anti Virus IS the Virus
“No, seriously, don’t. You’re probably reading this because you’ve asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.
Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party ‘VPN provider’ does.”
Most people are pathologically altruistic and ignorant of the nature of greed, and are technologically under-informed.
Many are realizing that few electronic information systems can be trusted with even the basic elements of their personal information. Expect harvesting, manipulation, tracking, fingerprinting and database consolidation at all times when on the internet. Trusting a VPN or even your local internet service provider is folly, as this brief article makes clear, here:
https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29#dont-use-vpn-services
From a YouTube channel named “US DEFENSE LINE“, another
obliquely named A.I. template-driven bag of faux content.
Just listen to the voice, and the script!
“It might be a nuclear war and disaster for the whole world, and we hope that never happens” (3:44)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKNQrzE2H14