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Google Search is getting even worse for independent sites in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Just listened to it again. Highly recommend. The short of it is more searches == more ads == more $. There’s a conflict between a great search experience (landing not on google) versus the time you spend ON Google.

Great story and just terrible outcome.

UltimateGuitar shows a fake tutorial video with the title of the song you're trying to learn. Clicking it just brings you to the sign-up page for their premium subscription. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

They completely messed up their iOS apps. I’ve had this for tabs for eons and bought a lifetime license. I think for no ads.

Now, you keep getting more aggressive subscription pushes.

When a real user uses the app in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 69 points 5 months ago (8 children)

The closest I ever got to this story was working help desk in 1996. A user called up saying they had deleted the Internet.

Took me a while to understand he dragged “the Internet” to the recycle bin on the desktop.