You noticed how google search became unusably shit a few years ago

[sterophonick@wetdry.world]

@ocean my conspiracy theory was true

[suedioh@mastodon.social]

@ocean It was always only about the clicks.

[kinnison@social.flarn.net]

@ocean it's this like this which reinforce my view that blocking adverts is not only desirable from a user experience perspective, but it's in fact a moral obligation

[drkylara@sfba.social]

@ocean
Now someone please tell my students. They are shocked by what I can find on the internet that Google never showed them.

[rexi@mastodon.social]

@ocean

commercialized enshittification.
marvy.

[triptilt@mastoart.social]

@ocean
source?

[nidonemo@cyberfurz.social]

@ocean Disgusting.

[soc@chaos.social]

@ocean I wonder how many human lives this has cost, if one tallies up all the time wasted across humanity.

[lmgenealogy@mstdn.ca]

@ocean I never use Google search (or Google anything, if I can help it). There's a reason they dropped the 'don't be evil'.

[noplasticshower@infosec.exchange]

@ocean that is more like assholification than enshitification

[a_cubed@mastodon.social]

@ocean @lrhodes
Paging @pluralistic

[cattail@mastodon.social]

@ocean I'm not surprised worse quality products affect usage. We see it with shrinkflation. I doubt people are dropping potato chips after they removed 5 chips

[mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org]

@Galamadryade @ocean that’s just Microsoft Bing in a trenchcoat.

[mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org]

@Erebus_Amauro @ocean hm, they regularily still visit mine… hmyeah but much less…

Is Seznam good? Their fulltextrobot also shows up.

[alleyoop@mastodon.social]

@ocean Ugh. I am so fucking tired of being taken advantage of! Aren't you?

[das_blaue_pony@mastodon.social]

@ocean

[itamarst@hachyderm.io]

@khleedril @ocean They started adding advertising pretty early on, honestly, I think it's just amusing (and sad) to see the path they went down.

[ehay2k@mastodon.social]

@ocean

Oh, @briankrebs

[aarbrk@mstdn.mx]

@itamarst @ocean Great catch with this source! If only we had spent the interim setting up an alternative in the public interest. (Actually, is it too late?)

[wampusmm@beige.party]

@ocean Wow, that’s despicable.