Even if the internet was wide open it’s of little use these days.
AI will replace any search you would want to do to find information, the only reason to scour the internet now is for social purposes: finding comments and forums or content from other users, and you don’t really need to be untracked to do all that.
A megacorp’s main motivation for tracking your identity is to sell you shit or sell your data to other people who want to sell you things. But if you’re using AI the amount of ads and SEO spam that you have to sift through will dramatically reduce, rendering most of those efforts pointless.
And most people aren’t using the internet like in the old days: stumbling across quaint cozy boutique websites made by hobbyists about some favorite topic. People just jump on social platforms and consume content until satisfied.
There is no money to be made anymore in mass web scraping at scale with impersonated clients, it’s all been consumed.
AI will replace any search you would want to do to find information, the only reason to scour the internet now is for social purposes: finding comments and forums or content from other users, and you don’t really need to be untracked to do all that.
A megacorp’s main motivation for tracking your identity is to sell you shit or sell your data to other people who want to sell you things. But if you’re using AI the amount of ads and SEO spam that you have to sift through will dramatically reduce, rendering most of those efforts pointless.
And most people aren’t using the internet like in the old days: stumbling across quaint cozy boutique websites made by hobbyists about some favorite topic. People just jump on social platforms and consume content until satisfied.
There is no money to be made anymore in mass web scraping at scale with impersonated clients, it’s all been consumed.