Comment by homebrewer
8 days ago
Also increasing balkanization of the internet. I now routinely run into sites that geoblock my whole country, this wasn't something I would see more than once or twice a year, and usually only with sites like Walmart that don't care about clients from outside the US.
Now it's 2-5 sites per day, including web forums and such.
If you live in Europe it probably has more to do with over-regulation than anything AI-related.
More like under-compliance than over-regulation.
"Bruh sorry we were technically unable to produce a website without invasive dark pattern tracking stuff. Tech is haaaaard."
Honestly, I've never found a page outside my own country that I couldn't live without. Screw that s*t.