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🚨 The Plugin Wasn’t Hacked. It Worked as Designed.

Sep 10, 2026

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5 min read

🚨 The Plugin Wasn’t Hacked. It Worked as Designed.

Rank Math exposed a WordPress risk no security patch can fix

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
⚖️ Your Comments Section Just Got Costlier to Defend

Sep 3, 2026

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4 min read

⚖️ Your Comments Section Just Got Costlier to Defend

A Ninth Circuit decision could force websites denied Section 230 protection to litigate longer before they can appeal.

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
🇪🇺 Europe Pays the AI Scraping Bill With No Refund

Aug 27, 2026

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4 min read

🇪🇺 Europe Pays the AI Scraping Bill With No Refund

European publishers get scraped 4x more and paid back less. Robots.txt was never a contract.

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
💳 Your Next Paying Customer Might Be an AI Agent

Aug 20, 2026

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4 min read

💳 Your Next Paying Customer Might Be an AI Agent

Cloudflare is building payment rails for AI agents, but most publishers still cannot collect a cent from the traffic.

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
🧭 86% Of Google Clicks Aren't Search Intent

Aug 13, 2026

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4 min read

🧭 86% Of Google Clicks Aren't Search Intent

Most search traffic isn't search intent anymore. What survives a platform or algorithm change is the audience you actually own.

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
🔓 WordPress Publishers Just Got a New AI Scraping Reality Check

Aug 6, 2026

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4 min read

🔓 WordPress Publishers Just Got a New AI Scraping Reality Check

You assumed the DMCA protects your anti-bot wall from scrapers. A federal judge just proved that assumption wrong.

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
🚧 Your AI Blocking Tools Mostly Don't Work

Jul 30, 2026

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4 min read

🚧 Your AI Blocking Tools Mostly Don't Work

Publishers are racing to block AI crawlers. The data suggests they're solving the wrong problem.

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
📉 Newsweek Lost 75% of Its Traffic. Then Had Its Best Revenue Year.

Jul 23, 2026

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5 min read

📉 Newsweek Lost 75% of Its Traffic. Then Had Its Best Revenue Year.

A 93-year-old magazine lost three-quarters of its traffic and is about to post its best revenue year ever.

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
🎙️ Own Your List. Rent Everything Else.

Jul 16, 2026

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5 min read

🎙️ Own Your List. Rent Everything Else.

A podcaster with 11 million weekly listeners says the only asset she controls is her email list

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
🎯 Your Content Powers AI Chatbots. You're Not Getting Paid.

Jul 9, 2026

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4 min read

🎯 Your Content Powers AI Chatbots. You're Not Getting Paid.

One in four chatbot answers cites YouTube creators, but platforms keep the revenue.

Michael Frew
Michael Frew
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