Invasive tracking and pay-for-play search engines has broken the internet. It’s time to reclaim our independence with the Small Web.
this post was submitted on 29 May 2025
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But is it? Because the amount of websites that aren't search engines but have insane levels of tracking and data collection are very high. Not all of it is for search ranking, IMO.
Still not the technology at fault. Webapps for example are a good innovation. But it's used for evil as well.