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Things Newly Enshittified
- joele
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"Now this is the command: Do to the doer to make him do." - The Eloquent Peasant (2040–1650 BCE)
“Religion the protector of the well fed and consoler of the hungry.” - Mikhail Bakunin
“Religion the protector of the well fed and consoler of the hungry.” - Mikhail Bakunin
Re: Things Newly Enshittified
Apparently it isn't duckduck, it is the microsoft services they rely on.
Apparently it's affecting bing as well, though i wouldn't know. Does anyone actually use bing?
Apparently it's affecting bing as well, though i wouldn't know. Does anyone actually use bing?
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Apparently, yes. Qwant also.
Greedy fuckers cannot self-regulate.
Prove me wrong.
Prove me wrong.
Re: Things Newly Enshittified
Ecosia no good
'The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.' David Graeber
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Greedy fuckers cannot self-regulate.
Prove me wrong.
Prove me wrong.
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Greedy fuckers cannot self-regulate.
Prove me wrong.
Prove me wrong.
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Well as far as I understand it if you use duckduckgo then you use bing.. DDG just uses the bing API to serve us search results, though the way they implement it is better than bing IMHO, as not tracked and they can tune/refine/rank the responses differently to bing, but yeah they (and by extension us as ddg users) are 100% still using bing's search engine.
i.e. they use this
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/ap ... search-api
"Now this is the command: Do to the doer to make him do." - The Eloquent Peasant (2040–1650 BCE)
“Religion the protector of the well fed and consoler of the hungry.” - Mikhail Bakunin
“Religion the protector of the well fed and consoler of the hungry.” - Mikhail Bakunin
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And now, your HEEEY, WHY NOT IMPROVIFY YOUR THINGAMAJIG WITH THIS ONE SIMPLE TRICK Instagram experience is irrevocably interrupted.
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https://9to5mac.com/2024/06/03/instagra ... pable-ads/
Greedy fuckers cannot self-regulate.
Prove me wrong.
Prove me wrong.
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Added linky:Irrev-Black wrote: ↑Tue Jun 04, 2024 7:42 am And now, your HEEEY, WHY NOT IMPROVIFY YOUR THINGAMAJIG WITH THIS ONE SIMPLE TRICK Instagram experience is irrevocably interrupted.
https://9to5mac.com/2024/06/03/instagra ... pable-ads/
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/3/24170 ... e-ads-test
Greedy fuckers cannot self-regulate.
Prove me wrong.
Prove me wrong.
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This post triggered a rant about being a social refusenik.Irrev-Black wrote: ↑Tue Jun 04, 2024 7:42 amAnd now, your HEEEY, WHY NOT IMPROVIFY YOUR THINGAMAJIG WITH THIS ONE SIMPLE TRICK Instagram experience is irrevocably interrupted.
I have now deleted all my accounts, but even before that I never had the stomach for Instagram.
Not having accounts is interesting. Occasionally there will be a link to something or other and I am banned from seeing it without an account. This includes things like NSW police issuing missing persons alerts, or announcements about weather cancellations for the local markets, made on facebook and/or xitter. I have relatives who don't know how to share photos except via enshittified social media.
Former colleagues now don't know how to get in touch with me, although I communicated my fediverse contacts before I "went dark" (perhaps the phrase should be disinfected my digital life, washing off all the shit). People actually refuse to use the the non-shit versions. They won't even look at public posts there, none of which require an account, unlike the facebook equivalent. But I'm the one that feels weird. Normally I like being the weirdo, but I would prefer it if the mainstream people would not immerse themselves in shit and smear it around the world.
A couple of other relatives have actually been very successful at monetising their social channels. I don't know the exact figure, but I think they get a decent bit of coin out of it as a side hustle. I wonder about the personal cost of doing that because so many people in that position have to market themselves, and it becomes all-consuming. Every minute of every day you need to have the camera ready to capture that moment and frame it in a way which will engage your subscribers.
I can feel it