But_Class_War

Yep, better disclaimers are inevitable. When they call it a 'feature' it isn't getting fixed

The president has been dogged by pro-Palestinian protesters at his public events for months, with his team now taking steps to shield him from the public shaming over his handling of the Israel-Hamas war. Biden has had to switch to smaller events, the locations of which are kept hushed until the last possible moment to evade protesters

Wait no, not direct action like that. You're no supposed to try to influence the lesser of two evils. /s

I feel that, like if a lib had posted this then they'd have been sincere about it but it was you posting it so we all know what's up

That's an actual liberal stance I see thrown around way too often so without a /s or some other explicit commentary I can understand why the post would be taken at face value or without assuming there's an implied sentiment.

Was is ever not completely under capitalism? As far as I've seen they were always fully going with hype over substance posturing

Pure enshittification, squeezing both sides. I had no idea on this part but that would explain a lot, fuckin wild

Here's how that worked: when you ran a query like "children's clothing," Google secretly appended the brand name of a kids' clothing manufacturer to the query. This, in turn, triggered a ton of ads – because rival brands will have bought ads against their competitors' name (like Pepsi buying ads that are shown over queries for Coke).

Here we see surpluses being taken away from both end-users and business customers – that is, searchers and advertisers. For searchers, it doesn't matter how much you refine your query, you're still going to get crummy search results because there's an unkillable, hidden search term stuck to your query, like a piece of shit that Google keeps sticking to the sole of your shoe.

But for advertisers, this is also a scam. They're paying to be matched to users who search on a brand name, and you didn't search on that brand name. It's especially bad for the company whose name has been appended to your search, because Google has a protection racket where the company that matches your search has to pay extra in order to show up overtop of rivals who are worse matches. Both the matching company and those rivals have given Google a credit-card that Google gets to bill every time a user searches on the company's name, and Google is just running fraudulent charges through those cards.

"They trust me — dumb fucks," says Zuckerberg

Always good to keep in mind

Wouldn't the api hit the cloud, isn't it just a different interface?