their ads platform ruined the internet
Ads were the bane of the internet FAR before Google even fucking existed.
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spicehoarder@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I hated Google far before it was cool. I would feel vindicated if it weren’t so damn overdue. They don’t even contribute meaningfully to society. And I mean that about EVERYTHING
Gmail is lame, their search engine sucks, chrome wastes resources, their ads platform ruined the internet, Golang fundamentally sucks, the emulation layer of android is so fucking wasteful, Material Design ruined digital creativity, etc.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 day ago
blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 1 day ago
and yet somehow google made it worse. Not only are there more ads than ever before, but now it’s also a panopticon.
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
You think chrome is bad? You should try the GCP console, 2 tabs were using 15GB RAM.
inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s okay. I gotcha so you don’t got to ssy it
Spicehoarder told y’all so!
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I need someone like you around.
noxypaws@pawb.social 1 day ago
What’s wrong with Golang? Agrees on all other points, and perhaps this one as well
spicehoarder@lemm.ee 1 day ago
The key point here is our programmers… They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language… So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand ―Rob ‘Commander’ Pike, creator of Go
And here’s a related blog post: https://valuedrivenit.blogspot.com/2015/12/to-go-language-is-mess.html?m=1
It’s a very opinionated language in the worst way possible.
treesapx@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Google search feels like it has stopped being the magic it was. Now whenever I search for something I might not find it underneath all the stuff on sale. For the first time in I don’t know how many years I’ve been finding myself using something else like Duck Duck Go.
inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The AI nonsense, the flawed ranking and the pages of sponsored links. Honestly, Google is just straight up useless.
13igTyme@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I used to use Google shopping to find certain items and compare websites. Now the entire left side that used to be a filter list is replaced. When you click a “filter” option it just adds text to the search bar. Then it will include an essay about why these are your options for something and recommend top brands, but then just list everything.
AnjunaSouls@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yep, that’s intentional. They stopped prioritizing user experience and started prioritizing ad revenue instead a while ago
joshchandra@midwest.social 1 day ago
Consider the decentralized amily of trom.tf apps, such as search.trom.tf as a replacement (that’s the only one I use of their stuff so far… but may poke around more later).