No need. Sundar is bad enough as is.
this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2024
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Internet Archive is essential now. I used to use Google Cached for when IA failed. All researchers are now losing that resiliency.
Enshitification strikes again. Cached doesn't make money and maybe reduces adclicks so it's gone. This benefits Google but not users in any way whatsoever.
I kind of wonder if they're just training machine models with it all so they don't have to store the content. That would give us a pretty good reason why their search results became inadequate over the period of a month or two.
didn't that happen like years ago? or maybe because I am using Firefox, but I haven't seen the button for the cached website for a while now
It's still there; just buried in a menu now.
Absolute cunts
Has Elon secretly bought Google too?
Nah, they've been pulling crap like this for at least a decade now, nothing new here
Yup, removing useful features is kind of Google's thing.
I still mourn the death of the Menu button in Android.
I stopped using Google late last year and it's pretty eye opening how much freer I feel now. Previously, any searches I made would follow me around. Make a one time search for something I'd see that being advertised later on. As a result I started searching more using private browsing. I'd often forget though and end up being tracked.
Ultimately switching to Firefox and DuckDuckGo I no longer have to do private searches. No more being followed around the internet.
Also I'm not convinced private browsing works. For example I still use it for YouTube but I noticed despite YouTube not knowing who I am, the videos on the home page include some that are very related to my usual videos. I guess they are using IP's to still deliver relatable videos.
Private browsing keeps your computer from remembering things about what you did. It cannot keep other people’s computers from remembering everything about interacting with you.
Indeed.
Yt doesn't know who you are, but it knows damn well who was last logging in from that PC/IP.
Same useragent and window size too.
Google is the king of giving bullshit reasons to hide their true intent.
My guess is ads don't work in cached pages.
This is the real reason. Google is an ad company, not a search engine.
Just like that safetynet thing. They will write long pages about it, but won't admit they want to make custom android roms unusable for the average user.
Finally, an excuse to use the Wayback Machine for all of my searches!
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