No, it’s Google changing their algorithm TP feed you AI slop.
The first page and a half of Google results now is just AI-generated comparison websites. That’s by design.
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RaptorBenn@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Blaming google is like blaming the gun for killing someone, google gonna do what google gonna do, it’s up to the consumer to effect change through attention.
Pirate@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
RaptorBenn@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Use another search provider then, it’s what’s called consumer discretion and historically has the best chance of effecting an outcome.
stellargmite@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
To a degree perhaps. It has also monopolised industries that feed into each other. Even if you choose not to use their consumer products, you are being used by them as the product in these industries if you use the web at all, which is most of their business model. That isn’t consumer choice. Political intervention is one hope, which in some countries I guess there is some consumer power over, if consumers were to collectivise to a degree more valuable than the lobbying power of this monster. The internet was turned into the yellowpages with sharp teeth by google .
RaptorBenn@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Oh yes, political intervention, that’ll work, no chance of that turning out worse than what we have now.
How about taking responsibility and just not using services that require it. And I dont care if that’s a disadvantage to some, that’s the cost.
Chulk@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Political intervention is what started Google, so I don’t see the problem.
How about taking responsibility and just not using services that require it.
Google has shaped the web into what it is over decades so that they could maintain their position of power. This is the very essence and purpose of a monopoly. Yet here you are trying to blame anything but the monopoly for the monopoly’s existence.
Nothing like convincing hundreds of millions of people to abandon a company rather than put any pressure on the small group of greedy people who own it.
RaptorBenn@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Listen man, if thats what you think is best, you keep using them and try to effect change, good luck, im just not going to use services like that and have the problem solved for myself. Let me know when you’ve made something happen and I’ll even apologise.
stellargmite@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The two approaches you mention need not be mutually exclusive. I ditched google services more than 10 years ago, while loving somewhere they did some truly despicable antidemocratic things. but so what? They’re a corporation. There are political lobby groups, privacy foundations and advocacy groups you can contribute to. Despite being respectfully evangelical with those around me, most other than a fringe really don’t care enough about this. Doesn’t mean I’ll stop. I will still suggest alternatives. They’re my principles. you’re working in their interest if you tell your allies to give up. I understand and share the cynicism around political process especially in democratic nations with disappointing levels of corporate influence over legislation, we can only engage in it best we can, as well as exerting our rights as consumers. The critical mass required may seem insurmountable but negativity toward those effectively on your side is not going to help either.
fodor@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Well no, it’s not, because they have multiple monopolies. So we should blame them and blame government for not stopping them.
Joshi@aussie.zone 4 weeks ago
Exactly, it’s counter-productive to blame individuals for doing the best they know how in a broken system.
RaptorBenn@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Where do monopolies get their money?
ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
From the consumers of necessary services that they have wholly captured…?
RaptorBenn@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I dont believe they are necessary or failing that are not available elsewhere, and i would call captured, handed to.