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Timely event given the announcement today. I deleted Chrome yesterday.

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Hey Gus 1d ago

@robpike were entering a new stage of surveillance capitalism. Somehow we’ve been lucky enough to experience all of it.

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klausfiend 1d ago

@robpike Nice. I scrubbed it from my phone last month. Looking forward to switching on my laptop the next time I have to restart my browser.

What announcement?

@Lily_and_frog @robpike on Mastodon, I always feel like I only get less than half of a story.

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Dynom 1d ago

@Lily_and_frog @robpike https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/

Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.

TechCrunch

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CodeHead

1d ago

@robpike Which announcement specifically? There have been a few...

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Thomas Hunter II 1d ago

@robpike this garbage? https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-ai-search-box-with-agents-more-upgrades/

Google's new AI Search box is here - along with agents and 5 more upgrades

Google now has information agents that work in the background and agentic coding tools that let you build apps directly in Search.

ZDNET

@tlhunter Yes.

@tlhunter @robpike thanks for asking with the answer

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Marco 1d ago

@robpike Chrome has been plain spyware for years now

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Cameron Purdy 11h ago

@marco @robpike according to the initial developers of Chrome, that was one of the primary reasons that it was funded by Google. Do the math. The math is not hard.

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Caesar Cattus 1d ago

@robpike
I haven't used Chrome or Google search for many years. It's still possible to hack that, but we'll see today if it's still possible. I've been using other search engines for years, how to ddg, searx, startpage, etc.