When I think about how the old, good internet turned into the enshitternet, I imagine a series of small compromises, each seemingly reasonable at the time, each contributing to a cultural norm of making good things worse, and worse, and worse.
Damn. This makes so much sense but it also so disheartening.
They had essentially a perfect product and a total monopoly over their market. Apparently, even that isn’t enough for some executives.
What’s even the point of trying to double or triple dip at that point? Maybe they made more money in the decade they got away with it, but the product is considerably worse than it used to be and now their dirty laundry is out in the open.
Shit’s depressing.
1984@lemmy.today 1 year ago
When it comes to Google, I find it completely absurd how people are OK with a giant ad / spy company saving and profiting from their private searches. Their entire lives, every sensitive query, stored in their databases. It’s absurd.
deleted@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How do you look stuff up?
I use duckduckgo but wouldn’t return good results sometimes.
1984@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Kagi, it’s amazing.
phoneymouse@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Google doesn’t return good results either though.
If you want best effort, use DDG as your main search. If the first query doesn’t bring back what you want add g! to it and it will redirect to Google. yt! goes to YouTube, b! goes to bing, w! Wikipedia, etc.
sudneo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Big fan of kagi.com. rock-solid privacy policy (seriously, I am one of those guys who read them all, this is probably the best I have seen), excellent search results and very nice features (lensed to search in specific contexts only - say, programming, up/down ranking of sites as you prefer, automatic rewriting of urls, custom bangs). The cons, is that it’s a paid service. I am personally a customer since November 2022, never looked back.