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404 MediaGoogle’s AI Is Destroying Search, the Internet, and Your Brain
🔗 https://www.404media.co/googles-ai-is-destroying-search-the-internet-and-your-brain/
Heroic 
@404mediaco - it really sucks we turned the infinite potential of internet into the worst (and increasingly worse) possible outcome.
Violet Madder@heroicthehobbyist @404mediaco
WE didn't.
Technofascist oligarchs who hate democracy and education did. They're destroying it, on purpose.
Worik@404mediaco I use duckduckgo. Their AI assistant is very useful and has improved the quality of their search results, immeasurably IMO
I have avoided Google search for over a decade
Don Marti@404mediaco I know 404 Media doesn't have a personal tech how-to section but you can almost get vintage Google back
https://blog.zgp.org/fix-google-search/
(fan theory: there are employees whose productivity depends on keeping this going, so they can't totally enshittify for everyone)
Phillip 
@dmarti @404mediaco Counterpoint: don’t use a platform that has so little respect for you. As long as people keep using them, even with workarounds, they have zero incentive to change their ways.
Use options like @kagihq @duckduckgo @StartpageSearch and @ecosia instead. You don’t vote with your wallet with free services; you vote with your time and attention.