Also a lot of surviving websites are no longer so accessible. ie Youtube and reddit comments, panoramio pictures (which google kept but you can't see, even if y

Also a lot of surviving websites are no longer so accessible. ie Youtube and reddit comments, panoramio pictures (which google kept but you can't see, even if you took them), even capturing a large amount of tweets is pretty hard right now. Companies are closing down all data they can grab. Youtube used to have a list of the top 1000 videos ordered by view count and other parameters. It allowed you to explore and filter their data. To choose what to see. To index their content. This is no longer possible. They want to keep everything they know about you private, and they want to control what you see and "discover". This is pretty far away from the open web we had 10 years ago. Part of the blame is Javascript, but most of the blame is on users who don't care. Smartphones ruined the internet in my opinion. Sure, there's more content than ever, but it's not freely available. In fact you're not even allowed to know what's available.