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Google has already been single-handedly destroying the internet for over a decade by turning into an ad-ridden mess
by cush 10mo ago
Google has already been single-handedly destroying the internet for over a decade by turning into an ad-ridden mess
- echelon 10mo agoWe've had 25 years to regulate them or break them up. It's our own fault for under-regulation.
- PlanksVariable 10mo agoPerhaps we should look to Europe for inspiration on how to govern tech companies.
- ThatMedicIsASpy 10mo agoIt is never too late to make user tracking illegal and destroying the nastiest part of the ad industry
- echelon 10mo agoWe could break their back if we required them to respect trademarks. Google captured the browser with 92+% "browser -> search" funnel market share. They turned the URL bar into "search", meaning that the method of finding trademarked companies and products now flows through a competitive bidding marketplace where competitors can slide in front of your hard-earned brand. This ought to be illegal.
- cush 9mo agoYou’re using “we” very liberally
- PlanksVariable 10mo agoFunny, I remember the Internet from over a decade (or two) ago and it was a mess of full-screen ads, seizure-inducing animations, infinite popups, etc. that Google helped eliminate.
- cush 10mo agoGoogle didn’t eliminate malicious ads - adblockers and easylists did that. I hate to break it to you bud, but the full-page ads never went away - they just look like content now. You know why you need to scroll for 9 pages to see the ingredients to a recipe? Google created the pageview driven business model that incentivized the internet to be filled with hostile UX, low-quality lists of paged content, affiliate spam, etc.