Omar GrigoryanMar 19, 2023
Jon Henshaw

🔥 “Google and Bing are locked in an arms-race to see whose search engine can attain the speediest, most profound enshittification via chatbot, replacing links to web-pages with florid paragraphs composed by fully automated, supremely confident liars.”

Via @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/09/autocomplete-worshippers/

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Mar 19, 2023 at 12:48amWeb
Show threadHalf Cocked LawMar 19, 2023
@jon @pluralistic Google needs to bring over the Youtube team if it wants to have any chance at developing the worst search engine.
Show threadBob StarrMar 19, 2023
@jon @pluralistic I knew things were bad. This quote made me realize its much worse. Still, however grim, the statement is poetically written. Thanks for sharing this.
Show threadLAURENMar 19, 2023
@jon @pluralistic @donmelton
enshittification is beautiful 🤩
Show threadElizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾Mar 19, 2023
@jon @pluralistic What frustrates me is that we have no choice but to be dragged along.
Show threadHorst Albermann 🇪🇺🇩🇪Mar 19, 2023
@jon @pluralistic Hopefully this will open the market for a competent competitor 🤞🏼
Show threadmsgbiMar 19, 2023
@jon @pluralistic @charles_ex @aloa5 @Ginger149
Show threadEnema CowboyMar 19, 2023
@jon
It's like the space junk problem, but without the rocket science.
@pluralistic
Show threadKeen GraspMar 19, 2023
@jon @pluralistic love that the internet’s new primary function is conjuring obstacles for blocking / frustrating people’s access to information rather than facilitating it. Chokepoint capitalism bizarro world.
Show threadJon HenshawMar 19, 2023
@keengrasp @pluralistic more like controlling it. It’s AOL all over again.
Show threadDrew_CMJul 11, 2023
@jon @pluralistic What a magnificent sentence!