One Google exec recently said the web is “thriving.”

For months, Google has maintained that the web is “thriving,” AI isn’t tanking traffic, and its search engine is sending people to a wider variety of websites than ever. But in a court filing from last week, Google admitted that “the open web is already in rapid decline” (with regard to advertising, kinda-sorta)

  • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlEnglish
    151·
    6 months ago

    Ok, well our backup is safe yeah ? So, good, it should burn down to the fucking ground,
    Topple DNS tyranny, blow up the CDNs, let datacenters become dilapidated, let the 101 rooms go unstaffed

    After the fire maybe something not quite as malevolent will grow in the ashes

    • artifex@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      7·
      6 months ago

      Well at least there’s the fediverse, onion routing, nostr ID management, simplex and others. It’s not quite a Plan B, and definitely takes some effort, but is much much better than nothing.

      • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlEnglish
        11·
        6 months ago

        I tried TOR earlier this year, and the 3 minute pageloads that timeout 3/4 of the time, were very off putting.
        I hope we can do better

        • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          TOR is rough, i2p is rough, ipfs is nearly dead

          Gemini protocol is lit and fast but dead. it’s like a fancier version of gopher.

          If we could all move over to gemini, i’d be stoked, no javascript, limited cgi bin opporunities

        • ChimpChamp22@reddthat.comEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          It sounds like there was something wrong with your setup. I use Tor almost exclusively for general browsing and while its definitely slower than VPN and unprotected browsing, its never taken more than 10 seconds to load a page, and that’s on the long side. Usually no more than a few seconds longer in any other scenario. Definitely never been 3 minutes.

          • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlEnglish
            6·
            6 months ago

            Nah, I had a 14400 bauds modem and even then it was never this slow
            I went to the dread forum and maybe got 4 page loads in 15 minutes
            simply unusable unless you really really need it and already know exactly what you need, where it is, and how to click as few links as possible to get there. And even then, reading single threads is an hours long task.

            • MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zipEnglish
              1·
              6 months ago

              Modem starts dialing up. Everything is going fine, attempting 28.8k negotiation… failed. Okay, now I’m listening to 19.2k negotiation… failed again? Ugh, ok, 14.4k… no? Jesus fuck. Please let me at least have 9600…

              Edit: typoes