Dark Wire - An insane story about the FBI setting up their own encrypted phone network and selling it to global crime syndicates.
Mastermind - The story of a 10-year-long quest to bring down Paul Le Roux, who went from crypto coder to drug lord to an insane global crime group. It is one of the craziest stories I've ever read. If you want to see how Bond villains form in real life this is it :)
Stats are fine, as sometimes people mistake a single data point for a truth. Might take a look at my post as there are links as this is a huge issue affecting many many many websites.
I don't have access to your "many friends and acquaintances who are going bankrupt and shutting down fantastic independently run websites." I absolutely don't have access to the internals of their businesses to decide whether I agree that their problem is Google Search being hostile to independent sites. But I do have access to the traffic stats for the sites which I run.
Many of the sites with similar complaints seem to focus on product reviews and recommendations and have been hit by a specific Google policy which favors trusted and well-known domains for those types of search, even if that domain is not trusted for product reviews in particular. (So $glossyMagazineInNYC can open a line of product reviews and get lots of Google traffic, while $smallProductReviewBusiness loses traffic).
There have been links from the DOJ case showing Google is pulling in Chrome data.
But its just one data point and nobody knows.
It seems more likely at this stage that Google has lost control of their AI system. they trained it on x websites, and indie websites got swept into that. And they don't care.
That's why I emphasized "everyone here." My wife isn't gonna stop using Google, and Kagi isn't a default option choice on iOS. Nerds will go out of their way to use a product.
Dark Wire - An insane story about the FBI setting up their own encrypted phone network and selling it to global crime syndicates.
Mastermind - The story of a 10-year-long quest to bring down Paul Le Roux, who went from crypto coder to drug lord to an insane global crime group. It is one of the craziest stories I've ever read. If you want to see how Bond villains form in real life this is it :)
Also, a lot of people have recommended "This is how they tell me the world ends" as well: https://shepherd.com/book/this-is-how-they-tell-me-the-world...
And I've been meaning to read Countdown to Zero Day about Stuxnet.
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