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There is so much fresh uncertainty following Google I/O, and I think it will take us all a while to process it and understand what it means. vale.rocks/micros/20260...

To play devil's advocate: this could be the end for a majority of ad-supported content websites, but many of these sites didn't offer a great experience to begin with. Maybe that means that the websites who survive are the ones who are directly supported by their community?

Do you have an example of websites that are directly financially supported by their community?

Podcasts, YouTubers, etc. often use Patreon. Websites could theoretically follow the same model?

Someone using a tip jar or affiliate links on their site is getting support through those. Patreon and newsletter platforms give you a share of the subscription money but only the money people send to *you* not all the money anyone spends with them

Wouldn't affiliate links be broken with the new AI search model?

Assuming they go directly to a product in a store, only if product store fronts stop offering fixed URLs to products. I don’t think we’re at the point of doing away with domain names yet?