Invasive tracking and pay-for-play search engines has broken the internet. It’s time to reclaim our independence with the Small Web.
Invasive tracking and pay-for-play search engines has broken the internet. It’s time to reclaim our independence with the Small Web.
Oh, man it’s been ages. I’m talking being in high school and having teachers talk to me about this. And then being in uni and having it be a thing people argued about.
I do not have any of the papers on hand or even remember the authors or names. The idea that algorithmic searches would create a bubble of self-selected media and erode a sense of shared reality isn’t new, though. We’re talking mid-90s here. People were arguing this about Altavista.