Reading this today really drives home how much we gave up moving from open protocols to platform feeds. Once companies took on growth-at-all-costs VC funding, keeping the web open stopped being an option—they had to build walls to sell the ad inventory. We traded open standards for convenience, and now we're stuck dealing with the lock-in.
Reading this today really drives home how much we gave up moving from open protocols to platform feeds. Once companies took on growth-at-all-costs VC funding, keeping the web open stopped being an option—they had to build walls to sell the ad inventory. We traded open standards for convenience, and now we're stuck dealing with the lock-in.