[nine_k]

If your site is all about disseminating information (like Wikipedia), then Google would provide a free mirror of sorts.

If your site is about your product, Google won't be able to serve the sign-up page from AI; the traffic would come your way. Same for a site that sell something: the traffic you're interested in would arrive at your checkout page.

Paid-content sites and ad-supported sites are screwed though, on top of their being screwed by archive.is and ad blockers.

[afavour]

The really confusing part about the ad-supported sites is that most of them are supported by Google's ad products. So Google is eating their own lunch here.

[rchaud]

Search Engine Result Page (SERP) ads shown on Google itself are far more valuable than display ads that get shown on random websites. Google has been slashing payouts to those sites for over a decade. More recentlt, they've been slashing search impressions to those sites as well. With search engine ads + Youtube ads + Play Store ads, they can probably cut out the third - party site ads business altogether and not miss a beat.

[watwut]

> Google would provide a free mirror of sorts.

That is not what "free mirror" is. Like, that is not the same thing at all.