I've already seen ads like those, some even pushing their political stuff.
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Google has added ads on both its search page and Chrome://newtab
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If this harms their business then why would they keep doing it
Say you're a decision-maker at Google (or Any Large Corp). You have a KPI to increase revenue by 5% this year. If you hit this KPI, then you get a bonus. If you get the bonus, then you can afford the thing that your partner has been wanting forever (or that will make your neighbours jealous, or whatever), and you get a happy life. You know that doing X will harm the company in the long term (defined as anything past…
How do we fix this loop in companies? It is a very serious problem for humanity’s future. It exists in government too. How do we reward long-term thinking and decisions?
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
Firefox has ads too. At least you can turn them off, until they add another category and you have to go figure out how to turn off the new ones.
I don't think I've ever seen a single ad on Firefox (including on any website thanks to uBlock working better on FF than anywhere else), what ads are you talking about?
Pocket.
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> All of this will benefit content creators. Could they do something to benefit the users instead?
Rest assured, it'll hurt both equally. Or do you think Google would treat content creators as equals?
Here's a reminder to everyone in the thread that Google owns YouTube. Content creators are, literally, the product. YouTube would not exist without them. They are not equals.
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#117The internet doesn't work without advertising. Almost as if the money to build all this infrastructure has to come from somewhere.
If only we could create a digital token that would be in such demand it would generate its own network and infrastructure effect.
Oh wait... they ruined that, too.
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There's no setting to set the new tab page in Chrome - not even in the policies json.
There is a setting for what the home icon does, and it defaults to new tab...but is settable. Maybe that's what was meant? Edit: See https://imgur.com/a/wQhvFF9
There is no home icon in Chrome, at least I don't see it. Or is that also some setting?
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#119Did you see what they did to YouTube? It's now like watching the Superbowl. Ads ads ads. I guess they are trying to convert as many people as they can to premium. But I think it's also because they don't know how to grow their revenue besides displaying more and more ads.
The more ads they put in, the more people get an ad blocker, so they have to add more ads to compensate.
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#120It was inevitable, you gotta get the infite growth from somewhere. Ane the next move will +1 this and so on, until google becomes less attractive than leaner competition. Because of inertia, legacy and people benefitting from the status quo, they won't be able to correct course. This is textbook "how empire falls" and why things that seem indestructible eventually dies like anything else. This will be the mile stone…
These days Bing is increasingly my goto search engine, my switching costs are essentially zero
I finally got fed up and pay for Kagi. Very happy so far. Cents per day is worth it