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Podcast: PodRocket
Episode: Google’s antitrust win, AI mandates, npm attacks and robots.txt
Description: Is the web breaking under the weight of AI crawlers, platform consolidation, and nonstop security breaches? We dive into the state of browsers, developer burnout, and whether tech regulation can actually keep up.
In this panel discussion:
We debate if robots.txt and AI licensing standards like RSL can realistically control how AI scrapes the web.
The fallout from DIA’s acquisition by Atlassian and what it means for indie browser innovation (like the Helium browser, Zen) in a Chromium-dominated world.
Why Google’s antitrust victory might embolden other tech giants, and what that means for comp...