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Google Made Me Ruin A Perfectly Good Website: A Case Study On The AI-Generated Internet

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Guest posts are not substantially edited by nor do they necessarily represent the views of The Luddite, though we do exercise discretion in which we publish. See here for how to submit one. I recently decided to run ads on a website that I own. I've never done this before. As you probably already know, I hate the ad-driven internet, but over my many years of coding, I've had many side projects, and some of these websites, browser extensions, reddit bots, and so on have proven quite popular. It is the greatest joy to make something that people find useful, or better still, makes people happy, but while others' joy does nourish the soul, it does not pay the bills. Recently, I've been spending a lot of time on one of these aforementioned side projects, which means I've been spending less time on my paid work. This has caused me to look at some of my many projects with a renewed, perhaps more ideologically compromising perspective. The crushing irony of running ads on The Luddite seemed to

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