Poorly written "advice" columns that exist only to hawk you some product is everything that's wrong with the way interactions over the internet work nowadays. It's ghoulish.
Write an honest, well rounded guide and leave links to your product out if it. Of course it's hard to write an honest well written guide without mentioning very capable free and open source options. Pretending they don't exist hurts your credibility.
Interesting. Is that because it blocks JavaScript, ads etc?
"The first rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two twice the price?"
Can we carve out a part of the internet please where we go back to super basic html pages that are a mix of self hosted hobby blogs and university research sites? It was good then. Everything's gotten so noisy, and busy, and shit.
It's widely celebrated that Jean Baptiste Kempf, who could have easily sold VLC for tens of millions, declined to do so (or more accurately lead the steering group that jointly decided) keeping the enormously popular video player free and open source
https://old.reddit.com/r/VLC/comments/x0azkz/this_is_jeanbaptiste_kempf_the_creator_of_vlc/
These were a couple of PhD geeks who hit it big, it's certainly not inevitable that intelligent people get absorbed with money, see the creator of VLC for example. It's just sad that these guys could have been rich AND kept the internet 'pure' and research focused. But instead commerce has crept in and taken a shit on what was once a clean simple brilliant search service.
Now that I think about it I'm not sure why they had to accept investor money at all. I wonder if it would have turned out differently if they had remained 100% privately owned?
I don't get it. They were rich beyond most people's wildest dreams. Why did they jump aboard the enshitification bandwagon?
Twitter: looks like the reich guy won!
Me: https://open.spotify.com/track/2RlgNHKcydI9sayD2Df2xp?si=H4xTyfGUTputdg6R4GVAbA
Plot twist: AI comes to believe humanity consists solely of shithead scammers, initiates nuclear war
So... they folded?