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11 articles on industry & ethics
AI Overviews cut publisher search traffic 10-40% and 58% of Google searches now end without a click. Here's what actually earns a citation instead.
Google is suing SerpApi for scraping its search results — using the same DMCA theory publishers use against AI labs. Here's the case, and what's actually at stake.
A federal court ruled robots.txt isn't a DMCA 'technological protection measure.' Here's what that actually changes — and what it very much doesn't.
The web scraping market is growing 13.78% a year toward $2.23B by 2031 — at the exact moment it's getting legally and technically harder. Here's why both are true.
How US export controls on AI mirror the nuclear playbook — what changed, why Claude is now partly a geopolitical instrument, and what fragmented global AI access actually means.
Cloudflare now sells bot protection AND crawling infrastructure. The conflict of interest, who it actually threatens, and what the pricing reality looks like for developers.
Why the gap between the web's information and our ability to access it programmatically is tech's most underrated problem — and why closing it is harder than it looks.
Proxy types, vendor economics, ISP proxies (the category most people miss), actual vs claimed success rates, and how to choose the right proxy for your scraping use case.
The case law, GDPR specifics, and enforcement reality that developers need to make real decisions — not platitudes about being a good web citizen.
