- cross-posted to:
- bugs_in_services
- netneutrality
- cross-posted to:
- bugs_in_services
- netneutrality
cross-posted from !netneutrality@sopuli.xyz
12ft.io was a clever service that exploited the fact that paywalls allowed Google to crawl their articles. By licking the boots of Google’s crawler, paywalls pollute the search index with their exclusive/closed content. Enshitification culminates by getting paywalls in our search results.
12ft.io gave people direct access to Google’s caches, so we could read the text that feeds Google’s index.
☠ 12ft.io is apparently dead now. “404 page not found”. wtf. We just lost an important disenshification mechanism. The linked news hit ~½ a year ago, but seems to have taken some time to actually play out.
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This is an old article at this point
Ugh. I usually downrank/block paywall sites in Kagi.
Interesting to learn that the Google caches have the full article. I wonder if this needs to be a website or if there could just be a browser plugin to redirect you to the cache… 🤔
