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

[dotmavriq@social.dotmavriq.life]

@ocean This really challenges the predominant explanations that "it's a consequence of the decline of Web 1.0 as it were and that as the internet has grown in mainstream popularity more demands have been placed on data protection et. c." ... I'm not quite sure how to feel about it... I'm usually cynical but even then like...

[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?)