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[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 years ago (33 children)

I do not trust Google at this stage. I pine for the day when Google seemed like a good company. Gmail was awesome when it came out, for example, and Google search worked well. Now I feel they are harvesting all my data to jam ads down my throat. Google search now sucks ass and just returns websites that have a bunch of AI nonsense or aggregated content that is effectively worthless.

I am migrating away from Google.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (24 children)

Now I feel they are harvesting all my data to jam ads down my throat.

I'm curious: how did you expect them to pay for the overhead of providing this service? I'm sure you didn't think that they would just eat the cost of providing it forever, right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Sometimes I wonder if people never blocked adds, would websites have less adds?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It would add to adds 🤣 @shalva97 @joe

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