▲ 260 ▼ Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com) submitted 2 years ago by teft@startrek.website to c/technology@beehaw.org 68 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] lloram239@feddit.de 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Lol, reading that “censorship” section alone tells you all you need to know about the author there. The site is obviously a bit over the top, however that doesn't change the fact that the (criminally overpaid) Mozilla CEO openly endorses censorship: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplatforming/ permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Lowbird@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years ago Your link doesn't seem to support your statement. Do you mean the part that advocates "turn on by default" tools to amplify factual information over disinformation? Because "turn on by default" implies an off switch. It's not possible for search engines to make zero decisions about what to prioritize in results, anyway. How would you prefer they sort the absurd quantity of results? Especially now SEO listicles try to drown everything else out? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Lowbird@beehaw.org 1 point 2 years ago Your link doesn't seem to support your statement. Do you mean the part that advocates "turn on by default" tools to amplify factual information over disinformation? Because "turn on by default" implies an off switch. It's not possible for search engines to make zero decisions about what to prioritize in results, anyway. How would you prefer they sort the absurd quantity of results? Especially now SEO listicles try to drown everything else out? permalink fedilink source parent