Comment on When if at all will the social media business model collapse?
bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 10 months agoTrue. But their business model is auctioning ads to the highest bidder when we search for relevant things, they just nailed search when people were still using Yahoo and AltaVista.
I remember using metacrawler.com a lot before Google came along
originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I think PageRank was a substantial improvement but - sure. Your premise that the cost of search isn’t endless surveillance is well taken
bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Oh definitely. It made the internet and information accessable to all.
Yeah, I’m okay with Google’s business model, unlike Facebook they don’t, as far as I’m aware, sell your data to anyone.
originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Oh don’t mistake me. PageRank is cool tech but fuck Google with a stick, they’re a surveillance monopoly like Apple and Meta
bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Yeah, I compartmentalise my online existence, all socials are on temp mails. Work is on Google workspace, no way around that, but home is on Firefox with all the ad blocking and cookie denying add-ons I can find.
I ditched FB around 2009 I think and I prefer android just because at least you can install an APK