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Decent alternatives have been bandied about here for over a decade. Guess what? There are none. Google’s business model is selling user data to the highest b
by imchillyb 3y ago
Decent alternatives have been bandied about here for over a decade. Guess what? There are none.
Google’s business model is selling user data to the highest bidder. Google’s other business model is selling opportunity to collect data on people.
You as a search user are not a customer, but a data point.
There is literally no incentive for this to change.
Desiring an ad company to not show ads is a ridiculous desire.
- mint2 3y agoThat’s not quite right - users are customers paying for a service, search, in exchange for a payment, I.e. their time and eyeballs. At the same time google coordinates with their other customer and swaps the time and eyeballs for money. But users are definitely a customer paying with time in return for search results. If the product becomes too obnoxious, people don’t even need an alternative to quit. It’s happened with other products. Not everyone will quit, but the customer base will shrink.
- imchillyb 3y agoGoogle owns chrome, and chromium. Google’s data gathering isn’t just search. Anyone not using Firefox, and even those who are using Firefox, is gifting Google data. That data is worth more than search results or search data. Google knows where you browse. Google knows how many clicks, scrolls, and keys pressed. Google knows what your email contents and preferences. Search is a tiny portion of Google’s data collection behemoth and whether users quit Google search for bingo search doesn’t matter much to them.