If one definition of evil is its wanton destruction of everything that is good and whole in the world, then Google is an active agent of evil.
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@mariafarrell I don't understand why people use Google. It never gets you what you are looking for.
@3rdi @mariafarrell Google spends a large amount of money every year to keep you from thinking about switching. Browsers stick the function in the back of the settings so you don't think about it. But don't assume it's just a Google problem. I mean would MS do this if they could? Sure. And the linked article mainly talks about the context of commercial websites, websites trying to sell you shit, which is what drives Google's ad money, so that seems fair. If Google just ruined the part of the web that's there to sell you shit, maybe we could live with that. But of course, eventually it will intrude everywhere.
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@mariafarrell Normie herę. Also not an artist. Calling us normies is cutesy at best, pejorative at worst. Jargon further confuses and alienates people. It's not that people won't care. Hope my picture explains it better than my words.
@coleenwalter @mariafarrell
I don't understand your comic - is the elitist is handing the protester a sign so they can protest against elitism? -
@connynasch I mean, it's not my effing "job" to build stuff for Google, let alone a parts library, because they don't bloody pay me!
@mariafarrell I feel for you!
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@jaypeach53 yes, I used ddg myself for a few years before switching largely to kagi. like you I don't love the bing connection but it's a decent free search engine, though now annoyingly you have to constantly repeat that you don't want AI "summaries", every few searches.
for non-youtube video, I can't remember just now the good alternatives, blame my middle-aged post-covid brain! but follow @_elena who's great on them (and much more).
@mariafarrell @jaypeach53 PeerTube maybe? Their search engine is here: https://sepiasearch.org
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@coleenwalter @mariafarrell
I don't understand your comic - is the elitist is handing the protester a sign so they can protest against elitism?@EndlessMason @mariafarrell I’m definitely not an artist lol. I was trying to show how overwhelmed ordinary people feel - so much to care about and try to change. The person on the right is the less burdened (perhaps part of the tech community) handing their torch to us. My stick figure sketch was just how the original post made me feel.
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@EndlessMason @mariafarrell I’m definitely not an artist lol. I was trying to show how overwhelmed ordinary people feel - so much to care about and try to change. The person on the right is the less burdened (perhaps part of the tech community) handing their torch to us. My stick figure sketch was just how the original post made me feel.
@coleenwalter @mariafarrell
I think, for this article and lots of the billionaire/tech media, you're just not in the target audience.Maybe it's nice to know about this patent for pub trivia or something, but if you don't have a website that your income depends on then even expending the energy to read it then shrug it off is an over commitment.
There might be some "temp embarrassed millionaire" types who don't have a website that they need to rank to make money but still care about this but they're just fantasising.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@SteveRudolfi/116279083767770070
If one definition of evil is its wanton destruction of everything that is good and whole in the world, then Google is an active agent of evil.
It is setting out to destroy the world wide web and steal the livelihood of everyone who builds and depends on the web.
I honestly don't know how to mobilise normies to care about and stop this evil. It probably seems too niche and incremental until it's too late.
Oh yeah, and in the UK an ex-Google exec is now running the BBC. . .
@mariafarrell everyone with google on their resume should be tarred and feathered so we can always identify and avoid them
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