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Matthew Prince writes in »Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation!« for cloudflare.com That changes today, July 1, what we’re calling Content Independence Day. Cloudflare, along with a majority of the world’s leading publishers and AI companies, is changing the default to block AI crawlers unless they pay creators for their content. That content is the fuel that powers AI engines, and so it’s only fair that content creators are compensated directly for it. ...

A new service is currently causing a stir: “Open RSS”. It was launched to make the web more accessible. The service lets you subscribe to RSS feeds even for websites that don’t offer them by default. The service is operated by a nonprofit organization funded by donations. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.

“netbeep” is an entertaining and useless browser extension for Chrome and Firefox. It plays sounds as soon as network traffic occurs while a page is loading. That said, one wonders why they didn’t include the nostalgic sounds of old modems. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense. ...

Anyone who’s used the Internet for a long time has probably noticed that, contrary to widespread belief, the web actually does forget. This finding is echoed by the Pew Research Center in their piece “When Online Content Disappears” by Athena Chapekis, Samuel Bestvater, Emma Remy, and Gonzalo Rivero. They call for more sustainable ways of preserving content, because even the Internet Archive can’t capture every page. ...

By the way, this little blog is e/n. But it’s the one with heart. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.