EnshittifAIcation
Yesterday morning, first thing after waking up, I checked my emails. One of them was from a client – a sharp person, but not a tech expert – forwarding a message from one of their “digital marketplaces”. They claimed that during site crawling, their bot upgrades the connection to HTTP/2, and that this somehow causes issues on their end, so they were asking us to disable HTTP/2 to fix the problem.I contacted Alex directly – the person (spoiler: not a person) who had sent the email – explaining that if their bot has trouble with HTTP/2 (which, on the contrary, provides significant benefits for the e-commerce experience in question), that’s their problem, not ours, and they should fix it. Completely unprompted, I received something unexpected in reply: a guide on how to configure Apache to…
