I searched how to reset an anker speaker yesterday, all the AI website bullshit at the top of the page was completely wrong. Had to actually find the manual online and look it up. Finally found the answer after 2 completely wrong AI solutions. I don’t use AI, I just went off the search results where it shows a brief answer at the top of the page. I despise AI bullshit.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
I see your point. It’s just for me worked couple of times well.
Example: I have hardware Steam Link hooked up to my TV. It had this issue where screen would freeze but game/audio would continue on, but menu would work half a time if not in game. I tried to look up the issue and found no lead. Adding “reddit” didnt help either. Only vague discussions, and dead-end leads.
ChatGPT prompt gave me couple of options where the 2nd option was to disable hardware encoding which fixed my issue.
I went to google same issue right now and still google results on 1st page have nothing about hardware encoding which was an actual fix. 1st link is to reddit where people say hardware encoding didn’t help so I disregarded this fix. Others claim that downgrading gpu drivers solve this issue. It didn’t.
I’d rather google. But lately quality of results are incredibly low.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It’s intentional. Hiding what you’re looking for makes you search more pages and see more ads. Google results turning to dogshit.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 4 days ago
I never understood online ads. I have been online since the late 90s and the amount of times I bought something because of an online ad is… I think never? I did find something I was interested in (an online coding school) but I don’t recall ever signing up.
I did use sites I was told by ‘live’ ads (youtubers plugging in their sponsors) a few times. But those weren’t conventional ads. I used expressVPN once and used the Angry Video Game Nerd’s sponsorship code, and godaddy web hosting once (because it was learning webdev) from Penn (of Penn and Teller fame). But it was because I was also looking for very specific services.