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Google has added ads on both its search page and Chrome://newtab

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Re: Google has added ads on both its search page and Chrome://newtab

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Post by jhoechtl »

BiteCode_dev wrote: post #14

It 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

Re: Google has added ads on both its search page and Chrome://newtab

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Post by darkwater »

sp332 wrote: post #46
sjaak wrote: post #32

Stop using Chrome

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.

Having an Amazon and Nike sponsored links in the new tab page is having ads strictly speaking but they are nor intrusive nor targeting you specifically, so they can be "tolerable". To be honest my mind just skip them. The day they change this for worse, then I'll complain as well.

Re: Google has added ads on both its search page and Chrome://newtab

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Post by public_defender »

becquerel wrote: post #30
glcheetham wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If this harms their business then why would they keep doing it

You are assuming that capitalism pushes individual actors to act in their own best self-interest. It does not. It pushes people to serve capital

I agree with this statement, but it's pretty academic. At this stage of the game (metastatic capitalism), people aren't generally allowed to have interests that don't serve capital. Like, there may be some philosophical "best self interest" which is beyond the capture of capital markets, but it's not part of our culture.

Besides, look at context. We are talking about what a company does and the agents of the company. Of course it all collapses to serving capital. I read GP as "why would company take short money over long?"

Re: Google has added ads on both its search page and Chrome://newtab

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Post by sensanaty »

cr3ative wrote: post #28

Annoyingly, the new tab page used to have an exclusion for these "announcements". The flag was removed. I've ended up installing one of those "inspirational new tab page" extensions, just so I don't see an ad. I am sure that means someone else is siphoning my data.

I use one that just lets me use some custom HTML, I just have some plaintext bookmark type links

Re: Google has added ads on both its search page and Chrome://newtab

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Post by HKH2 »

mort96 wrote: post #33

I woke up to ads in my new tab page in Firefox yesterday; sponsored links to Amazon and Nike. Browsers don't seem to serve users anymore. They, like everything else, are mostly ad delivery mechanisms.

Well that's a new low for Firefox. I'm a little surprised because I didn't think it'd be that quick.

Re: Google has added ads on both its search page and Chrome://newtab

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Post by is_true »

glcheetham wrote: post #18
BiteCode_dev wrote: post #14

It 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…

If this harms their business then why would they keep doing it

The incentives they have are not sustainable
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