Half of global web traffic already can’t be tracked to individuals due to cookieless browsers and refused consent, says this ID5 report.  They see wide adoption (63%) of alternative identity solutions like the one ID5 sells, which is based primarily on hashed email addresses.  They cast doubt on alternatives that rely on user log-ins, noting that 59% of publishers say fewer than 10% of their users log in.

BrightEdge reports that, despite huge growth, AI search engines still provide less than 1% of website referral traffic. You might think that’s a reason to ignore your ranking in AI search engines, but BrightEdge argues those rankings are still important because the main role of AI search is discovery, not referrals. Seems like a testable hypothesis. What we know for certain is that over-all traffic has dropped as users switch from traffic-generating traditional search to traffic-stifling AI search engines.