Technologist and writer, a blogger since 1999, formerly chief executive of Glitch and a board member of the Data & Society Research Institute. His 2012 essay "The Web We Lost" is one of the founding texts of the argument that the open web has been enclosed.
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Anil DashTechnologist and writer, a blogger since 1999The deal was always simple: search engines had permission to crawl sites because they were going to be sending users to those sites. If they're hitting your site half a million times for every one user they send to your site, all they're giving you is higher costs.↗Endgame for the Open Webanildash.com · 27 Mar 2026All korrents from this piece
Their wordsThe deal was always simple: search engines had permission to crawl sites because they were going to be sending users to those sites. If they're hitting your site half a million times for every one user they send to your site, all they're giving you is higher costs.
Their wordsThe web was an interesting and different place before links got monetized, but by 2007 it was clear that Google had changed the web forever, and for the worse, by corrupting links.
Anil DashTechnologist and writer, a blogger since 1999And that's the way AI should work - solving a specific problem for a particular community, instead of trying to be all things to all people, which is when these platforms start becoming unaccountable and start harming massive numbers of people.↗(One) Good AI Is Hereanildash.com · 28 Apr 2026All korrents from this piece
Their wordsAnd that's the way AI should work - solving a specific problem for a particular community, instead of trying to be all things to all people, which is when these platforms start becoming unaccountable and start harming massive numbers of people.
Anil DashTechnologist and writer, a blogger since 1999Meanwhile, others like Spotify and Netflix leverage their dominant positions in the market to coerce creators to abandon open podcasts entirely, in favor of proprietary formats that require listeners to be on those platforms — locking in both creators and their audiences so they are stuck as they begin the enshittification process.↗Endgame for the Open Webanildash.com · 27 Mar 2026All korrents from this piece
Their wordsMeanwhile, others like Spotify and Netflix leverage their dominant positions in the market to coerce creators to abandon open podcasts entirely, in favor of proprietary formats that require listeners to be on those platforms — locking in both creators and their audiences so they are stuck as they begin the enshittification process.
Anil DashTechnologist and writer, a blogger since 1999As publishers see the danger from AI bots expand, they retreat to putting more and more content behind either password protection or payment walls or both, leaving the only publicly-accessible content to be AI-generated slop; open resources like research work, scientific analysis, and fair use of content all suffer as a result of people responding to the bad actors, since legitimate uses of open content are no longer possible.↗Endgame for the Open Webanildash.com · 27 Mar 2026All korrents from this piece
Their wordsAs publishers see the danger from AI bots expand, they retreat to putting more and more content behind either password protection or payment walls or both, leaving the only publicly-accessible content to be AI-generated slop; open resources like research work, scientific analysis, and fair use of content all suffer as a result of people responding to the bad actors, since legitimate uses of open content are no longer possible.