One of the other things I like to do toward the end of each year is review & clean up my saved logins & passwords. I’ve accumulated a lot of logins over the years, and having resisted the temptation to Sign In to everything With Google has made this a bit of a sprawling problem.

So I go to review Apple Passwords’ security recommendations, and there are over 250 warnings 😬

Some of these are cases where I reused a password before the advent of random strings, but in most cases the site suffered a security breach in the last few years.

And on top of that, there is a large number of the websites on this list that are dead. Either they’ve been acquired & shut down by a larger company, replaced by a blog-looking thing of AI slop content, or are fully dead dead.

This is what remains of a free service I guess I signed up years ago for called launchkit.io:

This is what happens when I go to perfectfitprotein dot com, a website my wife bought some protein powder from once (note how it seemed to redirect to a “ mancavepictures site”???)

There are some sites that are still around but they’re barely recognizable, or I suspect the crew maintaining those sites are akin to a skeleton now.

I think that’s the real shame of the Dead Internet Theory — not that most activity is by bots & for bots, but that the bits run by humans are gradually giving up & shutting down, leaving the giant conglomerate platforms in their wake (and the few independent websites fighting to keep it alive).

Source: https://bgreen.lol/the-giving-up-internet