• Emi@ani.social
    4·
    16 hours ago

    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.

    • halcyoncmdr@piefed.socialEnglish
      11·
      9 hours ago

      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.

      • defrostedLasagna4921@piefed.zipEnglish
        1·
        6 hours ago

        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.

        • halcyoncmdr@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          5 hours ago

          Google has been an advertising company for over two decades. Everything else that they do is to feed AdSense.

    • aliceitc@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      16 hours ago

      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…