... right now, too many of the players in the open ecosystem are still carrying on with business as usual, even though those tactics have been failing to stop big tech for years. I don't say this lightly: it looks to me like 2026 is the year that decides whether the open web as we know it will survive at all, and we have to fight like the threat is existential. Because it is.

https://www.anildash.com/2026/03/27/endgame-open-web/

Endgame for the Open Web

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Anil Dash