Web

The death of search referrer traffic is nigh.

While reading a Mastodon thread by Simon Willison, I discovered the following prescient warning– published in 2019! –from Anil Dash. In this post, Dash explains how platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, and others use their one link restrictions as a deliberate barrier to the open web.

Thanks to this post from Adam Johnson, I’ve now updated my configuration to block OpenAI and Meta from crawling this website to feed their LLMs.

This is a fantastic article, that along with its companion piece, it covers how the influence of business on the web has been reduced from writing to "zombified copywriting." The author indicates that this is because so many people writing for the web are not writers, but rather engineers, secretaries and designers.