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The people who ruined the internet (www.theverge.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The authors angle seems to be more of “hate the game not the players”, and even the they aren’t entirely sympathetic to all of them. The more that search engines became the main entrance to the web, the more that website owners would seek to get closer to the entrance, and the SEO people illustrated in the article are the result.