I forgot this point, but you are right. I use ChatGPT for all programming queries- as I don't want Google routing me to pop-up infested splogs.

Upnext spent about two years developing a "reader" that could deenshittify most pages in the context of a "read-it-later" application. They pivoted to start Brief which does AI recommendation and summarization and shut down Upnext. I think they are still using the back end of the reader to get a clean extract of text to feed into the AI.

But it's very telling that users are supportive of Google's agenda of not sending you to people's actual web sites because web sites have gotten so bad. Europeans will deny it but I think those cookie banners broke the dam so that now it is normalized that you can pop up four different modals asking for an email address.