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You Used To Be Cool. Pfft, Sell Out (lemmy.world)
submitted 14 hours ago by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 30 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

I remember before ai I would just find what I needed with the.first link. Now I need to scroll past 3 ad links. Even duckduckgo has sponsored links.

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  • [–] 15 points 13 hours ago (1 child)

    Yes. I miss the days when the Wikipedia article was the first result. Now, even with ddg, to get to the Wikipedia article I have to add wikipedia to the query... This is so sad...

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  • [–] 0 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

    They've gotta pay the bills somehow. If you're not paying for it, someone else is, and that mean either selling ad spots, or selling your info.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 hours ago (1 child)

    Not really the case with Google though, at least not anymore. They have more money than ever. They could very well go with less ads, but they instead shove more and more down people's throats.

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