Read: Judge Rules Google Is a Monopolist | Big Tech on Trial

Read: The Bait-and-Switch Crisis: A Dangerous Disconnect Between Headlines and Content | Joan Westenberg

I’m also looking at you YouTube and those misleading thumbs. Feh!

Read: Chrome Web Store warns end is nigh for uBlock Origin | The Register

Reason: Cos Google doesn’t want you blocking their ads.

Remedy: uBlock Lite (maybe)

Read: 50 years ago, CP/M started the microcomputer revolution | The Register

My first computer ran CP/M. My first job out of college was selling CP/M computers.

Read: Websites clamp down as creepy AI crawlers sneak around for snippets | The Register

Link: ‘Google says I’m a dead physicist’: is the world’s biggest search engine broken? | The Guardian

Link: UK’s only free-roaming bison herd thriving in Kent | BBC

#rewilding

Link: A Beginner’s Guide to the Fediverse, for Threads Users (Updated July 3rd, 2024) | We Distribute

Link: Finding the indie web is hard | Delyo’s garden

#indieweb

Link: Inside the Mafia of Pharma Pricing | BIG by Matt Stoller

Link: Rabbit r1 AI assistant has secretly been storing user chats that can’t be deleted | ZDNET

However: a fix is on the way in an update.

Link: What makes smoky, charred barbecue taste so good? | The Coversation

Link: Declare your AIndependence: block AI bots, scrapers and crawlers with a single click | Cloudflare Blog

To help preserve a safe Internet for content creators, we’ve just launched a brand new “easy button” to block all AI bots. It’s available for all customers, including those on our free tier.

Lots of interesting stuff about AIbots in that post. Also, IMO this kicks off the AI Wars.

Link: Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1 Million from GitHub Founder | Lunduke

The “From Scratch” browser is preparing to take on Mozilla & Google

Link: Add Mojeek to Your Browser | Mojeek