Dr. Axel Rauschmayer, author of the long-running JavaScript reference blog 2ality.com and a series of widely cited language books, took both his blog and his free online books offline. Dr. Rauschmayer book sales income, which had been sufficient to live on as recently as 2024, had collapsed to zero by 2026, while traffic to his free online content had risen beyond what he could afford to serve , driven almost entirely by AI crawlers and producing no advertising revenue to offset the bandwidth costs. "I'm taking my blog and my books offline so that I can decide what to do next — especially with respect to AI companies stealing my work," Rauschmayer wrote.