Okay what about...what about uhhh...
Static site builders that render the whole page out as an image map, making it visible for humans but useless for crawlers

Capitalism isn’t your friend and will never serve you

Well there you have it. Although I still feel weird that it's somehow "the internet" that's supposed to solve a problem that's fully caused AI companies and their web crawlers.
If a crawler keeps spamming and breaking a site I see it as nothing short of a DOS attack.

Not to mention that robots.txt is completely voluntary and, as far as I know, mostly ignored by these companies. So then what makes you think that any them are acting in good faith?

To me that is the core issue and why your position feels so outlandish. It's like having a bully at school that constantly takes your lunch and your solution being: "Just bring them a lunch as well, maybe they'll stop."

I mean, tech bros of the past invented the internet

I wasn't being totally serious, but also, I do think that while accessibility concerns come from a good place, there is some practical limitation that must be accepted when building fringe and counter-cultural things. Like, my hidden rebel base can't have a wheelchair accessible ramp at the entrance, because then my base isn't hidden anymore. It sucks that some solutions can't work for everyone, but if we just throw them out because it won't work for 5% of people, we end up with nothing. I'd rather have a solution that works for 95% of people than no solution at all. I'm not saying that people who use screen readers are second-class citizens. If crawlers were vision-based then I might suggest matching text to background colors so that only screen readers work to understand the site. Because something that works for 5% of people is also better than no solution at all. We need to tolerate having imperfect first attempts and understand that more sophisticated infrastructure comes later.

But yes my image map idea is pretty much a joke nonetheless

I mean, tech bros of the past invented the internet

I mean, tech bros of the past invented the internet

If only you understood anything you were talking about. Oh well!

Imagine if it was people’s happiness and freedom instead of quarterly profits

1. Whose happiness and freedom?
2. How is it to be measured?
3. Capitalists honestly believe that free trade is the best albeit flawed way to do both of the above

It's definitely valid to disagree about point #3, but then you need to give a better model for #1 and #2

The complaint that got blamed on capitalism was:

The information age gave way for the misinformation age, where everything is fake.

and if there's one entity/person most responsible for that, it's Putin or the GOP. Most of it is political, and very little to do with capitalism itself. Except that capitalism surrounds and is intertwined with everything.

Still, if you get rid of capitalism, it doesn't get rid of politics. I'd argue that the root of the issue is the GOP trying to hoard power (money and otherwise), and power is going to exist with or without capitalism. Is North Korea capitalist? Do they have issues with disinfo?

This Christian Sharia Law movement doesn't exist for money.

Capitalism itself is political. But the point I was making was that capitalism was the driving force of enshittenfication of all our technology that could be used for helping us all but instead it’s only about profit. Which is capitalism..