More than 140 brands are advertising on low-quality content farm sites—and the problem is growing fast.

Junk websites filled with AI-generated text are pulling in money from programmatic ads::More than 140 brands are advertising on low-quality content farm sites —and the problem is growing fast.

  • AmphobetEnglish
    34•1 year ago

    The internet as we know it is going to change dramatically very soon. Probably for the worse in the short term, but I do hope something better emerges from the ashes.

    • @CustodialTeapotEnglish
      29•1 year ago

      The internet has been dying and changing for the worst for a long time.

      Websites trying to be a one stop all on one site that keeps you there are 90% of web traffic these days.

      Having multiple bookmarks for multiple sites for individual reasons are the small user basis.

      Sites like Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, tik tok and YouTube etc are the majority of web useage. Gone are the days of forums for bespoke interests.

      Discord as a closed ecosystem with none threaded or web searchable topics.

      Ad ladden shit hole news sites. Click bait shite etc are the norm.

      Gone are the days of enjoyabls fun to explore web surfing.

      • El BartoEnglish
        10•1 year ago

        Gone are the days of forums for bespoke interests.

        What about Lemmy?

      • @[email protected]English
        7•1 year ago

        I feel Lemmy is the new … eh forums golden age or something. Anyone will quickly be able to fire up an instance, I mean anyone can fire up a community today already!

        We have been spoonfed dopamine triggers since Facebook came around, before that you’d be on the internet because you actively wanted something. I hope that’s coming back.

        Grr /old rant off :-)

    • @[email protected]English
      28•1 year ago

      If Lemmy is an early indication, I suspect the proletariat will make our own internet. With blackjack and hookers.

      • @Tangent5280English
        13•1 year ago

        And enormous compute capacity and volunteer hours.

    • @[email protected]English
      11•1 year ago

      What happened to reddit will probably happen on a much larger scale to the entire internet. First the enshittification destroys everything and then a new thing will emerge that much more resembles the old internet. Google’s Web Environment Integrity could be the last nail in the coffin and speed up the change significantly.

      • El BartoEnglish
        -2•1 year ago

        The web is not the internet.

        If Google does that, the people who cares will migrate to something else.

        Example: the fediverse.

        • @wmassinghamEnglish
          4•1 year ago

          The fediverse runs on the web, though.

          • El BartoEnglish
            -3•1 year ago

            But not exclusively. That’s why there are apps for it.

            If the API is HTTP based, then it would be a matter of implementing another non-web-based protocol.

            Edit: I’m not saying I would get rid of HTTP. I like RESTful services where they make sense. I’m just emphasizing that the fediverse doesn’t have to depend on one single protocol.

            • @[email protected]English
              5•1 year ago

              There’s absolutely nothing wrong with HTTP. Abandoning it would be like eliminating German because it was the language the Nazis used.

    • El BartoEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      is going to change dramatically very soon

      Again?