Excited to announce that Google has apparently made a major enshittification breakthrough! They've actually managed to enshittify *confirmation dialogs*! I cannot overstate how impressive the talented teams behind this at Google are. The key insight was to replace the previous “Allow”/“Disallow" buttons with "Allow”/"See advertisement" buttons. Almost feels embarrassing that we were wasting this monetization opportunity in the past.
Nothing on arxiv.org yet unfortunately, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're keeping the details of this development secret. Google is usually pretty good about publishing this stuff. It would certainly be a shame if they kept this amazing work to themselves instead of allowing everyone to benefit from it.
@tolmasky The fines from previous lawsuits were not high enough. Next time add a zero at the end and maybe that'll make them more aware that they cannot win this game.
Or make the fine due each day as long as the "problem" exists and announce that the next fine will be twice as high.

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@tolmasky I’m confused. In what context does this confirmation dialog appear?

@tolmasky This is wild.

I remember that about twenty years ago, pretty much everything from Google was top-notch, and the search results were often mind-blowing. I thought that if Google released its own web browser, it would be so cool.

How times change. Personally, I do not use any Google services except for YouTube today.

@tolmasky @petereisentraut so, when are they going to enshittify their search results as well?