> I miss the days when the web was this simple
You mean before AdSense and SEO or exactly what the site’s author does for living?
You mean before AdSense and SEO or exactly what the site’s author does for living?
I suppose it was inevitable in the drive of the commercialization of everything in life?
How many times have you seen “useful content” buried by paragraphs of word salad to juice SEO?
Search for any subject where you consider yourself a subject matter expert. Are the top results what you would consider good? This is excluding first party vendor content.
By simple, I meant in the sense that some kid in high school could put up a site that's not rich in JavaScript, have people find it organically, not need to worry so much about scaling or DDOS, not need to worry about GDPR, not have the expectation of accessibility, and not need to have an iOS and Android app for people to actually use it.
This isn't to say that the same technology used in say 2005 can't be used today. But it's a time investment with not nearly as much of a likelihood of seeing a meaningful return.