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staticbrain t1_j9j3u8o wrote

Google is the threat to google. They don't even try anymore. They are falling like yahoo did back in the day. The search results are nothing but ads.

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Wide-Impact-2110 t1_j9m0fdm wrote

Google Results have stopped being relevant for quite some time and I have found myself using it less and less.

A few days ago I was looking for a specific population statistics, I just asked ChatGPT and it gave me the answer + the link to the original source material.

Google is really in big trouble. I’m fed up with trying to get through ads and shitty websites that managed to game the search engine algorithms.

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RawScallop t1_j9mz6eb wrote

For the longest time now I feel like I just can't find what I'm looking for anymore on google because it's all promoted crap that crashes my computer. I thought I was just getting bitter and maybe forgot how to look things up, because I can't find SHIT anymore.

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Wide-Impact-2110 t1_j9n9d2i wrote

You’re not the only one. I keep asking myself if my Google skills have turned to shit. The reality is that it’s Google that turned to shit. I see myself using DDG and even stuff like Yandex. I would not have even considered it a few years back

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Acceptable_Reading21 t1_j9jce3x wrote

If people stop using Google search I expect ads on Android to get even worse to make up for lost revenue.

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pseudorandomess t1_j9jlc39 wrote

What are the ads on Android?

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Acceptable_Reading21 t1_j9jlpz4 wrote

Just the ones that pop up in my notifications from various apps. Although I'll admit it's not as bad with android 13 keeping notifications off my default.

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HotelKarma t1_j9jn5bi wrote

Just block notifications or uninstall those apps. Androids not profiting from that

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supamario132 t1_j9kivgj wrote

Not an android experience but I used to have a phone that would occasionally show me notification ads for apps I don't have installed. Verizon pushed those ads from an app that I couldn't uninstall without jailbreaking my phone

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HotelKarma t1_j9kys7s wrote

You couldn't disable notifications or disable the app?

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gvilchis23 t1_j9l21vw wrote

Those are not ads, neither is google send it them, is push notifications from other companies, probably your carrier

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Figure-Feisty t1_j9l916l wrote

why are they downvoting you? Notifications off is a feature in most phones.

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Apart_Ad_5993 t1_j9lu709 wrote

You're blaming Android for that? Not the apps you installed?

Android/Google developed custom notification actions to deal with that.

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kthegee t1_j9mx499 wrote

Yes have a look at the so called “privacy sandbox” they are introducing . Companies like Facebook can now track you across apps.

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Apart_Ad_5993 t1_j9n23by wrote

Facebook can track you wherever you are, and whatever you use. It's not an Android problem.

If you have a problem with Facebook tracking, then don't use it.

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kthegee t1_j9nk71l wrote

I don’t use it and this is a android problem “privacy sandbox” is anything else , in the past you would have to install there spyware onto your phone to be spied on. Now any app can contain spyware bundles to run at a system level and collect user data from beyond just the app but from all apps installed on your device.

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kthegee t1_j9mwzrl wrote

Google android’s new “privacy sandbox” it’s already happened , now Facebook can track you across apps and google served it to them on a golden platter.

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samyoualljaxuhn t1_j9ks7zw wrote

It’s kind of like Blockbuster. They had it on lockdown but was unable to innovate and then got left behind. From what I hear, Google have tons of good ideas but don’t commit to the stuff that matters. I’m interested to see if the ‘too big to fail’ idea applies.

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Pickled_Sloth t1_j9muyy4 wrote

Outside of search, maps, email, chrome, and….. uhhhhhhhhhhhh…. Wait, have they even done anything noteworthy in the past 10 years?

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maqbeq t1_j9nj850 wrote

Android?

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ruralgaming t1_j9npr0n wrote

Android was created in 2003. Google bought it up in 2005. It was initially supposed to be an OS for digital cameras, oddly enough

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carminemangione t1_j9ngoe9 wrote

I have to agree. One thing to note, Gates is not a visionary. He is a ruthless business man who leveraged his position (given a monopoly by IBM because his mom and dad had connections). He missed networks (said sneaker net was enough) he thought he could monetize emails because they 'passed' through his servers, thought the internet would never work because everyone would want to use MSN.

I believe that the only reason the internet exists is because MS was convicted of conspiracy and antitrust violations during the Clinton admin. This prevented them from forcing the crap tech IE down peoples throats.

No one should listen to him. He is a parasite who never contributed anything but drag on the advancement of technology. Hell, he bought the original DOS from Tim Patterson for 45K (his mother's money).

The companies he destroyed are legion; Stack, DBase, Sybase (I was there when they locked the Sybase people out because MS stole their code).

They tried to eliminate Java and all non MS web technologies. ActiveX was a shit show, I wrote an entire journal about it I(please inquire if interested).

Gates is much like Edison. A parasite who exploits the accomplishments of others and claims them as his own.

I want this old man to just go away.

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staticbrain t1_j9ngwal wrote

Would love to see the journal about the ActiveX stuff.

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carminemangione t1_j9no8ix wrote

I have a copy in my library, let me check.

Directions on Microsoft, by Redmond Communications June 1996.

ActiveX: Microsoft's Internet Client Development Strategy

It was highly controversial as it was hyper critical of the strategy. Basically, activeX was exposing raw C++ pointers to the internet (the basis of COM). My boss thought it would cause problems with Microsoft but it was the highest selling copy mostly to groups in microsoft.

Don't know if you can find that one... although the follow on on Microsoft's Java strategy the next month is also quite enlightening.

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Starfish_Symphony t1_j9l2ezr wrote

I use google mostly as a 21st century version of "the Yellow Pages" -and it's about as effective as a firkin' Val-Pak as it is.

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chikinstrips t1_j9k9z6l wrote

I don't know who owns Ecosia, but they get all of my dumb questions first because they plant trees because of it. If Google did something like this that gave anything back I think they'd find more support, but instead they Google it up and play the "make short term investors happy" game which will never go well.

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RawScallop t1_j9mzhwb wrote

It's like something great is made, it's sold to someone willing to pay a lot for it, those people then do everything possible to squeeze ALL the profit and assets it has to offer and accrued. Everyone gets laid off so they dont hav to be paid, and the company seems to just be ran into the ground as long as the people who bought it were able to basically liquidating it.

its like, they see a really awesome, popular thing,and they take it and turn it to cash for them and ruin it for everyone, and then wait to do it again elsewhere.

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vanhalenbr t1_j9kr7ks wrote

But this is the problem. If the AI gives you the result you want you will not click on ads. Google by design put payed results on top to be confusing and users click on ads.

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Rook22Ti t1_j9mc8hp wrote

Y'all not using uBlock or AdGuard? Even Brave or Vivaldi block them on mobile. Google search is turning to shit but I haven't seen a real ad from them in years.

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staticbrain t1_j9md1lv wrote

If you need to use a secondary provider to stop something, it is a trash service to start with.

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Rook22Ti t1_j9mefxm wrote

Sure, and as I said, their search engine is going to shit. But I would say that like 90% of the internet is unbearable without an ad blocker. It's startling that a lot of people on r/technology aren't using them, based on this thread.

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