All ux must be sloppified.
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Maxxie@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Being an ad-driven company annihilated old google. Instead of developing precise and efficient tools (like they used to) all effort goes to convincing users to care about random crap, because the crapmaker is paying up.
As a programmer who enjoys a beautiful solution to a hard problem, this irks me every time I’m forced to interface with google.
primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus 5 months ago
javiwhite@feddit.uk 5 months ago
The sloppification will be televised (during increasingly regular ad intervals) !
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Google was always an ad driven company. Google Adsense was kind of a big deal there for a while.
Once they started letting money affect their search results, especially with promoted / sponsored results, everything started going downhill.
It used to be that nobody went to the second page of google search (because the first page almost always had the result you needed), but now, the first page is almost entirely ads and paid content.
It’s not the advertising part of Google that ruined it, because that part has always been there. It’s the greedy executives that shoehorned ads into every other product and service possible, and are not cramming “AI” down everyone’s throat, trying to make us all dependent on it, so they can rugpull it and charge us for access.