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Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would ... by capybara_2020 on Monday September 20, 2021 @08:08AM (#28592892)
There are more blogs out there today. But with a focus on SEO the quality of blogs has dropped.

To meet some arbitrary SEO goal like, longer articles do better we have people filling in the top 1/3 with unneeded filler. Then we have companies trying to plug their product in a "10 best tools for X" article. Even if their product is crap for that feature, along with the content mills, the quality has dropped.

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Re:If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would ... by ypcx on Monday September 20, 2021 @08:23AM (#28593032)
Yep, "SEO" killed the internet. As have "Accept Cookies" prompts, "Do you want notifications" prompts, "Subscribe to our newsletter" prompts and "Why are you leaving our page" prompts. Content farms, click-bot-like farms, fake-review farms. The free internet is dead.
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