• Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    From the article …

    but that I have to wait for all the crap I don’t want in the first place.

    It comes down to Google telling us what it thinks we’d want, vs giving us what we actually ask for, and the time wasted doing so.

    That, and probably punishing people who use ad blockers.

    Anti Commercial-AI license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

    • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      telling us what it thinks we’d want

      that’s “it thinks we’d want to buy

      They’ve gone for the money and are now finding out that cannabalizing search stops customers coming to their site.