'The fact is that today, the open web is already in rapid decline,' says Google in court, then quickly rows back on that statement

"It's clear from the preceding sentence that we're referring to 'open-web display advertising' and not the open web as a whole." Is it?
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The Open Web: Dead, Alive, or Just Complicated?

Google kills* the open web. Amazon kills* The Trade Desk, which kills* the open web. GenAI kills* search, the open web, and ...

Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’

For months, Google has maintained that the web is “thriving,” AI isn’t tanking traffic, and its search engine is sending ...