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The public internet model is effectively dead due to saturation, algorithmic aggregators, and AI security vulnerabilities, and that may open new possibilities (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
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Ben Thompson / Stratechery: The public internet model is effectively dead due to saturation, algorithmic aggregators, and AI security vulnerabilities, and that may open new possibilities — It was the summer of 2003, just weeks before I was set to move to Taiwan, that I decided to create a blog to document my journey.
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