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You Used To Be Cool. Pfft, Sell Out

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Submitted ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • Polisheocket@lemmy.zip ⁨56⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    It’s what happens when companies go public. The ideals of the company go out the door and they care about is profits

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  • PattyMcB@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Don’t be evil

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  • Avicenna@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    become a monopoly by roleplaying as ethical and efficient

    fuck your userbase because they don’t have nearly as good alternatives

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    • schema@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      OpenAI had the same playbook.

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  • Emi@ani.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I remember before ai I would just find what I needed with the.first link. Now I need to scroll past 3 ad links. Even duckduckgo has sponsored links.

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    • CorrenteAlternata@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes. I miss the days when the Wikipedia article was the first result. Now, even with ddg, to get to the Wikipedia article I have to add wikipedia to the query… This is so sad…

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      • Territorial@piefed.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You can just search on Wikipedia…

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    • libewa@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      DDG allows you to disable ads and AI in the settings!

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    • halcyoncmdr@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They’ve gotta pay the bills somehow. If you’re not paying for it, someone else is, and that mean either selling ad spots, or selling your info.

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      • defrostedLasagna4921@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Not really the case with Google though, at least not anymore. They have more money than ever. They could very well go with less ads, but they instead shove more and more down people’s throats.

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    • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      laughs in Kagi

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    • gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      SearXNG is really easy to self-host

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  • Abyssian@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, that’s how the internet worked out. Everything started out awesome to attract huge numbers of users, then slowly started collecting more and more of our data to use and sell while ramming in more and more ads.

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  • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I mean, I get it, servers cost money, traffic costs money.

    But there’s a little gray zone between going broke and sucking out every cent possible. Isn’t making enough money enough?

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    • Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Shareholders need ever increasing value or they will sell their shares. In the US at least, it is illegal to not provide shareholders with value. The only way to reliably get value is to fuck over your customers at every turn and fire half of your employees every few years

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      • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s the reason we should get rid of publicly traded companies.

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    • tabris@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      In the word of Jim Stephanie Stirling, “They don’t just want a lot of money. They want all the money.”

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      • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        See, this is why I would suggest to switch to the post-scarsity model of Star Trek. Then they can have all the money, but it’s completely worthless.

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    • PhoenixDog@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      When you’re a Trillion Dollar company, you don’t need MORE money. You make enough to make everything run without additional income.

      But obviously a trillion dollars is still not enough. We need more.

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  • mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Google (www.google.com) is a pure search engine - no weather, no news feed, no links to sponsors, no ads, no distractions, no portal litter. Nothing but a fast-loading search site. For now. Give it a decade.

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  • HappyCatLuvs_U@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Don’t Be Evil ☝️

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  • orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Back then running on FreeBSD 2.X.

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    • Dagobertdelta@feddit.nl ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And no Kubernetes cluster needed to serve a search box. 😉

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  • jobbies@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    …no morals, no care for humankind…

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  • DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Lemmy is better than Reddit.

    For now.

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    • libewa@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Unlike Google, Lemmy (and Mastodon etc.) are FLOSS, so if one instance enshittifies, we can move, even to different ones, fediblock that instance, and continue on. This is the problem with Bluesky: You cannot (realistically) self-host all the ATProto infrastructure, or federate with anyone while not using some service from Bluesky.

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  • Railcar8095@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I remember using it back in the day because it was the only one fast enough for 54KB.

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  • alecbowles@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Back then when human rights were cool

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    • PhoenixDog@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Back when humans cared ajout humans instead of money.

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      • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Ha. Stone age?

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  • Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That's the hook.

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  • danhab99@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “reward them with a visit” sent me over the edge

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  • HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    My how the turntables

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