This means, among other things, that uBlock Origin is about to be disabled in Chrome. Google will choose a different extension to recommend but it can not be as effective as #uBlock Origin.
Following #Google's example, may I instead recommend you switch to #Firefox.
Firefox will continue to support Manifest v2, and consequently uBlock Origin and other extensions that can not be implemented with Manifest v3.
Importantly, it touches not just on the value of the presence of #information from from election campaigns, it reflects on the (negative) value of the absence of information.
"[T]he US government is...trying to break up #Google, the largest #tech#company in the history of the world, and there has been virtually no press about it.
" #Biden's comms team isn't bragging about the administration's accomplishments, because the senior partners in this coalition oppose those accomplishments. They don't want to win an #election based on the promise to prosecute an anti-corporate revolution, because they are counter-revolutionaries."
Hopefully this does something about its being heavily underreported. Google's kept The Algorithm™ under wraps for YEARS, because "otherwise the spammers would win" (h/t @pluralistic ):
Every time I install Windows 11 at work, I feel like I've sold off a little more of my soul.
This operating system is one of the biggest privacy disasters to ever be forced upon the world of personal computing.
Seriously, I know it's intimidating, I know computers are complicated, but you need to ditch Microsoft, and Google. They are not your friends. They are using and exploiting our entire population.
These AI SEO spam operations have used lists of common searches to ensure that their pages come up first in searches in the “long fat tail” the kind of search where it used to be about 50/50 if you’d find a page addressing your needs. But, it used to be if you found something like “The top 15 smallest ants in the world” it wouldn’t be nonsense. It’d either exist and be the work of another person who cared OR you found nothing. Not so now! I can’t possibly over-stress how bad this is! 1/
@futurebird I don't think that you overstress. In social media (the amplifier of the whole thing), one can already recognise tendencies where knowledge loss as a cultural phenomenon is reminiscent of biodiversity loss. Experts still recognise it. But what if the baseline shift is no longer noticeable?
In the near future a mass of people are going to die in a city from the heat, and the headlines will say that "it wouldn't have been so bad except the power went out"
Heat is going to take down power systems. The power systems that could protect us from an event, will be harmed by the event.
618 people in Canada, in the mountains, in the forest, died of a #climate heat event, on the floors of their homes, on their beds. No flames. Just a days heat.
The power stayed on, it would have been worse
Recommended new #Google mission statement: "Our mission is to organize the world’s information and misinformation and make it universally accessible and useful."
I'm going to say this again. I am totally uninterested in workarounds and hacks to try bypass Google's horrible AI Overviews. They solve NOTHING. In fact, they help make the situation WORSE. 99.999% of #Google users won't know about them and/or won't use them. They reduce pressure on Google to actually fix these systems. And of course, Google can choose to block them at any time.
My recommendation is to stop thinking in terms of "techies 'tricking' Google" and start thinking in terms of the policy efforts required to make things better for ALL users. Get off the techie high horse and start thinking about people beyond our tech communities, and the impacts that Big Tech is having on them in increasingly negative ways.
Google is taking “swift action” to remove some of the bizarre AI-generated answers appearing at the top of its search pages. “A company once known for being at the cutting edge and shipping high-quality stuff is now known for low-quality output that’s getting meme’d,” one AI founder, who wished to remain anonymous, said. Read more from @theverge https://flip.it/E0coKc #Tech#AI#Google#ArtificialIntelligence
Today is #NewstodonFriday, a day to feature work from newsrooms that have an active presence in the #Fediverse. If you like what you see in the thread below, follow the profiles and boost their stories. If you're a journo or newsroom that we don't know about (or there's someone that should be on our radar), please comment below.
Shoving #AI in users' faces is a symptom of a larger problem in tech right now. Until recently there was this idea that tech served its users. If you were writing #software, you tried to figure out what your user wanted the software to do, and you wrote software that tried hard to do what the user wanted.
Today huge swathes of software and online services have pivoted to doing what the owning companies/shareholders want it to do. In bygone days, software developers used to see how they could get the user's experience down to the least amount of friction. Hell, Amazon even patented "one-click" shopping.
Today #Google is literally trying to INCREASE the number of clicks before you get what you want because each time you click, they earn a bit more revenue.
Look at any #smartTV or video streaming app. If you're willing to watch whatever they put in front of you, you can do THAT with just a click or two. But if you're specifically seeking one particular thing because it is what YOU WANT to watch, the minimum number of clicks skyrockets, including ads, previews, and suggestions that you need to take action (like clicking "skip") to avoid.
Software and services are prioritizing what THEY want as the lowest-friction result and are making what YOU want the highest friction result. #LLM crap is just one of the many things they want you to interact with, and so they abandon any pretense of listening to you and just force it on you.
Google disabled their AI so it will no longer give you a stupid answer when searching for "cheese not sticking to pizza," but the 11-year old Reddit shit post advising to use Elmer's Glue as a remedy that the AI regurgitated yesterday is still the top ranked search result and that's probably even worse.
Low latency, has the options I need, and I appreciate the defaults of leaving the query in the URL and in the page title.
SearXNG is a meta-search engine. You can use it as a front-end to one or multiple search engines such as DuckDuckGo, Google, Bing, Qwant, ..., it only depends on what your instance makes available.
Die Älteren werden sich erinnern, dass man früher von Google einfach eine Liste von Treffern bekam. Dann wurde die Ergebnisseite immer weiter möbliert und mit Werbung garniert. Was wäre, wenn ich Euch erzähle, dass es das immer noch gibt? Könnt Ihr selbst probieren. Geht einfach in die URL einer Ergebnisseite und hängt dort einen weiteren Parameter an: udm=14
@DropBear@serge There is so much wrong with your post that it would take forever to properly unpack... Primarily you are tokenizing Jews via one of the most fringe sects out there. Secondly, you fundamentally do not understand what Zionism is.
You are either spewing #Soviet#propaganda or you disagree with this characterization. The only way you can remove any doubt is by citing your own reliable source(s) from where you got this idea.