I’ve noticed search results getting WAY WAY worse to make AI summaries and other AI appear to be smarter in comparison. You can’t fool me, I’ve been around long enough and watched peak web usefulness decline for almost 15 years now.

I would bet peak internet was 2012, before Facebook acquired Instagram, Snapchat was brand new, and Twitter bought Vine. Ever since, Zuck has been in a data hoarding rampage to make sure Meta “is the best” whatever that means, and data mining progressively got so much worse to today’s levels. Windows 7 was the top, so the OS wasn’t enshittified or crammed with ai code, and Xbox live was still affordable. The biggest threat to home privacy was the Kinect.