The engagement-mining "content" is what killed the open web. Adblockers are just disposing of the body. The genuinely useful stuff out there is on 1990's era p

The engagement-mining "content" is what killed the open web. Adblockers are just disposing of the body. The genuinely useful stuff out there is on 1990's era personal sites. Then there are Wikipedia. Then there are company blogs (most of these were slop even before LLMs, but there are some quite good ones). Then user-generated hobbyist-driven stuff where advertisement only paid for running the platform - and these could be crowdsourced, it's not like running a server is that expensive. The rest is the content created for the sole purpose of showing people ads - and it belongs in the wastebasket.