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0 pointsnicbou6d ago0 comments

It has reduced traffic to my website by around 65%. I live from that website. My income is a function of the traffic it gets.

I spent 9 years of my life putting hard-earned information on the internet, and now big tech uses it to enrich themselves while putting me out of work. Even my backup plan - software development - is being devalued to hell. It's so damn depressing. We'll get the internet that we deserve.

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salomonk_mur6d ago

To be fair, the traffic you had was mostly routed by them as well. Google giveth, Google taketh away.

ryanisnan6d ago

Callous take. You make it seem like only Google was giving here. If Google was routing users to OP's site, surely OP had something beneficial to give.

CalRobert6d ago

Had they been correctly punished for anticompetitive practices there would be other search engines with meaningful market share.

jmusall5d ago

In my humble opinion it was balanced when Google gave traffic to sites and these sites gave good results for Google to show

atoav6d ago

No. OP made the content Google copied with AI to their landing page, which reduced the traffic.

But I forgot that they convinced you to accept AI as a magic "make copyright disappear"-technology.

intended5d ago

Google giveth jack shit here.

Google users wanted to find that info. Google served its users.

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