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To play devil's advocate: this could be the end for a majority of ad-supported content websites, but many of these sites didn't offer a great experience to begin with. Maybe that means that the websites who survive are the ones who are directly supported by their community?

Do you have an example of websites that are directly financially supported by their community?

Podcasts, YouTubers, etc. often use Patreon. Websites could theoretically follow the same model?

Ad-supported websites aren't all bad, and many are rather valuable. To even lose a few of the good ones is terrible. Separately, this change will harm content discoverability by reducing the number of visitors (who might have supported them), negating the community support vector.

I mean, I mostly agree, but at the same time I don't want to over-value the current system just because it's the one I'm used to (and the one I benefit from). So I'm trying to keep an open mind.

yea…….. been relatively shattered for quite some time with the state of web and dev; enshittification is coming for every aspect of every corner of tech it seems :(

also woah bluesky comment integration is siiiiicccckkk - kudos!

Thanks! A very scarce few details here if you're interested: vale.rocks/posts/the-im...

I think the Modern Web Guidance skills are actually promising. I mean, we couldn’t make developers listen to a11y concerns when producing their reactive hand coded slop soup. Now we have at least an avenue to make their tools listen.

That is an adorable idea ;)

Let’s face it: accessibility consulting most of the time feels like screaming into to the void. With contributions to skills provided by big players like google we A) reach the big group of developers that craves ”best practices“ approval B) can actually test the impact on generated code quality

I think it'll have the effect of people thinking their tool is handling accessibility for them and thus not paying it any attention. Perhaps less care than before, even. The output I've seen thus far from testing has been rather worrying, though I understand the 'skills' aren't final yet.

They already did. Either you place it into the tools by stealth, or (like we did) sneak it into the design systems. When mentioning a11y in a meeting, the react devs face melts, the product owner cries because someone told her it’s soooooo expensive, and the scrum master sends you away.

as a seo specialist.... my job is cooked. thats all I can think of. I'm creeped out by the amount of ai. But now what is the future of search intent, and how do I rank sites to increase profits/awareness for my clients?!