Hey guys, stop using Google and Meta and X and Amazon.
They’re kinda ruining civilisation with their terrible ideas and all you get in exchange is news that doesn’t inform you, social interactions that are largely artificial and a permanent inability to use technology which they exploit by selling you enshittification-laden garbage.
The price of their “free” services is way too high. Get rid of them.
Guys, I’ve figured out how to get rid of this “feature”.
Stop using Google.
Google peaked with maps anyway.
Why is people still using google? I used it recently due to a mistake after years of using DDG and honestly, i dont know how anybody can find anything with it. Ads, paid ressults, rubbish that i didnt ask for… Maybe im just not acustom to… idk, googling? But i feel like they trully fucked it up.
I tried switching to DDG for a month or so and I felt like the search results were not quite right, and google was at least equivalent quality, but more often just better.
It was a huge shame because I don’t want to stay on google for all the reasons everyone is talking about.
I asked someone else who tried to switch away from google and they said the same thing.
That was my experience the first time i switched but i insisted cause my hate to google prevailed. What i felt at the moment is that google had so many aid for searching that 1: it kind of de-trained me in how to properly use keywords and 2: was great for searching common stuff but made search too convergent.
This is just based on vibes and feelings, so it could very easily be a lot of nonsense.
Now trying it back, i feel it off, as I said, but it could also be that i just got acustom to how DDG works. The thing is, not a single result on fisrt page was on topic.
I’ve been hearing this for 5 years now
Paywall.
Google has been proven to be information manipulators. Who would go there for the truth? Websites with independent journalists and citations will shut all of this down (but please, not another podcast).
“Users are happier when we tell them lies our algorithm says they’ll like. Yes it is also news”
There are LLM based plugins to convert clickbait headlines to summarize the actual content. “News” sources can blame themselves and wtf Google is converting them into
Why on Earth would anyone go to Google for news.
Install Brave. Use its default search.brave.com. Google last. After a lot of other good options.
