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That’s just for small players. Big corps probably been doing it for years.
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This is a direct consequence of Google targeting Reddit posts in its search results. Hopefully forum groups like Lemmy don't go get buried under a mountain of garbage as well. As long as advertisers are able to destroy public forums and communities with ads, with ad based revenue sites like Google directing who to target. We will always be creating something great while constantly trying to keep advertisers from turning it into a pile of crap.
The history of TV, in reverse. And then forward again.
At first, it was an impossibly expensive medium rules by a cartel of agencies and advertisers. Eventually, HBO comes along and shows you don't have to just make a bunch of lowest common denominator drivel.
Netflix eventually shows that the internet can be a way cheaper model than cable. Finally, money shows up in the streaming model, remaking advertiser friendly cable in the internet age. All in about 2.5 decades.
When googling something, append -site:reddit.com
Logitech decided to include some AI shit in Logi Options+, I uninstalled that crap ASAP.
You don't get to blame AI for this. Reddit was already overrun by corporate and US gov trolls long before AI.
You don't get to blame AI for this. Reddit was already overrun by corporate and ~~US~~ gov trolls long before AI.
Ftfy
Large chunks of reddit read like US state dep press releases.
Yeah, my point was just that it'd be silly to think it was just us gov doing it and not others.
Really just "trolls" in general, but
“New poison has been added to arsenic. Should you stop drinking it? Subscribe to find out.”
OMG 😂, so good! Your comment I mean, not arsenic.
The problem is the magnitude, but yeah, even before 2020 Google was becoming shit and being overrun by shitty blogspam trying to sell you stuff with articles clearly written by machines. The only difference is that it was easier to spot and harder to do. But they did it anyway
These things became shit around 2009. Or immediately after becoming sufficiently popular to press out LiveJournal and other such (the original Web 2.0, or maybe Web 1.9 one should call them) platforms.
What does this have to do with search engines - well, when they existed alongside web directories and other alternative, more social and manual ways of finding information, you'd just go to that if search engines would become too direct in promotion and hiding what they don't want you to see. You'd be able to compare one to another and feel that Google works bad in this case. You wouldn't be influenced in the end result.
Now when what Google gives you became the criterion for what you're supposed to associate with such a request, and same for social media, then it was decided.
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