• spicehoarder@lemm.ee
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    18 hours ago

    I hated Google far before it was cool. I would feel vindicated if it weren’t so damn overdue. They don’t even contribute meaningfully to society. And I mean that about EVERYTHING

    Gmail is lame, their search engine sucks, chrome wastes resources, their ads platform ruined the internet, Golang fundamentally sucks, the emulation layer of android is so fucking wasteful, Material Design ruined digital creativity, etc.

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      7 hours ago

      What’s wrong with Golang? Agrees on all other points, and perhaps this one as well

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      17 hours ago

      Google search feels like it has stopped being the magic it was. Now whenever I search for something I might not find it underneath all the stuff on sale. For the first time in I don’t know how many years I’ve been finding myself using something else like Duck Duck Go.

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        5 hours ago

        Yep, that’s intentional. They stopped prioritizing user experience and started prioritizing ad revenue instead a while ago

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          17 hours ago

          I used to use Google shopping to find certain items and compare websites. Now the entire left side that used to be a filter list is replaced. When you click a “filter” option it just adds text to the search bar. Then it will include an essay about why these are your options for something and recommend top brands, but then just list everything.

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        10 hours ago

        and yet somehow google made it worse. Not only are there more ads than ever before, but now it’s also a panopticon.