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cocoto | 1 month ago

And what if your website is ad free and the AI full of advertising? At least the users get the information and the AI save on your bandwidth (in theory!).

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pcdevils|1 month ago

You lose any real attribution and people following other links on your site... Essentially Google took the value and left you with nothing.

TeMPOraL|1 month ago

That's assuming one cares about "attribution" and "people following other links on your site". I.e. that's still being a salesman, maybe with extra steps.

In the alternative case, no value is being taken, you're left exactly with what you had before - nothing gained, nothing lost - but some user somewhere gains a little. Apparently even in 2026, the concept of positive-sum exchange, is unfathomable to so many.