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Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
Pepijn@mastodon.online wrote:
As far as I have been able to figure out (also became a parent around that time, was distracted) this was very much linked Google experimenting with their "AI summaries".
Whenever Google enabled this in a region the traffic to https://overfishing.org just disappeared.
This had never been an issue with their previous version, the "Quick answers" snippets they had since the 2010s. These would not be rewritten by a machine, and did link back properly to actual carefully worded information.
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