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Ask HN: How long have Google / Facebook etc. been trying to kill the web?
6 points by everyone on Sept 29, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment
I'm a game dev. I have zero interest in the web. But I recently had to make a landing page for one of my games. I was able to throw together a perfectly serviceable page (with html and css that I remember from college) in a few hours. I hosted it on Netlify which worked perfectly and was very easy for me to use.

The problem is my page seems to be considered dangerous..

https://image.ibb.co/dq3WGz/image.png

I've seen articles / comments here complaining that the olden days of peoples weird personal sites are gone... But it further seems that the big players (facebook et al) are actively trying to squash anything akin to this 'old' web by making it not compatible with their system.. Did I get this right? + How long has it been going on?



The deeper question is where will this go? The web has been capitalized by the ethical breach of abusing the lacking of general technological knowledge by most people and new breed developers aren’t paying attention. I feel your pain but cannot offer a reasonable solution but one may exist with the required ethos. After posting, moments later I saw a post of the following. It holds promise from the inventor of the web:

https://www.inrupt.com/blog/one-small-step-for-the-web




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