Neocities founder stuck in chatbot hell after Bing blocked 1.5M sites
3 months ago
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- #Cybersecurity
- Bing started blocking approximately 1.5 million independent websites hosted on Neocities.
- Neocities, founded in 2013, preserves the 1990s Internet spirit by allowing free, personalized website creation.
- Neocities founder Kyle Drake noticed Bing blocking Neocities sites, initially resolved but re-blocked in January.
- Bing redirected users to a copycat site, raising security concerns about phishing.
- Bing traffic to Neocities dropped from 500,000 daily visitors to zero, prompting urgent reports via Bing webmaster tools.