This is not "unprecedented" at all, see e.g. here: https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/lf9egy/comment/iivz...
Wasn't the Nexus 7 (2012) the first such ad? Aside from chrome itself bring advertised this way, that is.
Google has added ads on both its search page and Chrome://newtab
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#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
The first part is correct, but the second certainly isn't.
Oh forgive me, I've just checked are you're right. The new tab page is now frequently visited sites. Our family Mac we got in ~2011 did show Apple as the new tab page, or at least the start page when you opened Safari after booting. However this must have changed in the last few (read: >5-7) years.
> Our family Mac we got in ~2011 did show Apple as the new tab page, or at least the start page when you opened Safari after booting
Pretty certain this is also incorrect.
My recollection seems to accord with the Wikipedia page on the history of the Safari browser which (although it doesn’t itemize the default StartPage for each version) doesn’t cite any inclusion of an AppStore link, as far as I can see.
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#83Annoyingly, 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.
Both in Chrome and Firefox, I always set my new tab page to `about:blank`, or in other words, absolutely nothing. Why? Because the address bar is all I need to get where I'm going. I type faster than I click.
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#85I can't believe how many people here still use Google search and Chrome browser.
Unfortunately quite some things only work entirely on Chrome. My default is still Firefox but it’s no getting around it at times.
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#86Lol, the advantage of domination?
Tbh, I really want Apple do something innovation for browser. However, looking back to Webkit on both iOS and macOS, I can see no hope...
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#87They are changing their natural listing results to be multi media photos and video content will be prioritised on search results, it is going to be released in America first this month I believe They are also seeing the results will be far more varied and scrolling down will likely give you a result that you are looking for, and the traditional way of looking with the top result, being the one that you wanted may not…
> They are changing their natural listing results to be multi media photos and video content
I’ve been unfortunate enough to see this, it’s absolute hot garbage and made it way harder to find what I wanted.
Is this a knee jerk response to TikTok kids using TikTok as their generations google?
I don’t think many understand how much Google land is up for grabs right now. Google Images is right there for the taking if you just supply the same experience as 10 years ago Google Images.
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#88Stop 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.
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?
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#89It 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
Why not duckduckgo?
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#90Did 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.