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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Dude, know your audience. Lemmy is not the place for this SEO stuff. This belongs on LinkedIn or something.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The timeline is absolutely ridiculous considering the scale at which Google play operates. However I otherwise don't feel a bit sorry for them. It's probably a foreign experience to most of the Google team to have a competitive challenge and if they are up to it they'll be fine. If not, I guess that's the free market at work...

(Also, is it Epics entire business model to just sue their way into relevance? I'm happy to see the big tech firms squeal but seriously it's like Epic wants their entire brand to be about suing competitors.)

 

God bless the FTC.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Tmobile does it as a service but it's a paid one and inconsistent in accuracy. I had it for free as part of a plan for a while and told them no thanks to an additional charge. Not sure it's worth paying $5/month.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is right on the line of creepy surveillance and interesting public art project. I kind of like the idea but not a fan of the fact that it's recording in stealth. I wish it were more transparent about it. Most people wouldn't care anyway and it removes some of the discomfort of listening in on a bunch of strangers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

It's of course troubling that AI images will go unidentified through this service (I am also not at all confident that Google can do this well/consistently).

However I'm also worried about the opposite side of this problem- real images being mislabeled as AI. I can see a lot of bad actors using that to discredit legitimate news sources or stories that don't fit their narrative.

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

Or, perhaps a mashup of both???

[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 months ago (29 children)

I don't understand the folding phone thing. It feels like tech now is all about creating ridiculous features and tech companies trying to convince us that we want them while ignoring things that would actually be worthwhile like repairable phones, headphones jacks and minimal bloatware.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think I read somewhere too that AIs were actually better than people at captchas.

Found it

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Why do tech companies keep pushing this crap on us when society has clearly communicated that it is dumb?

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He did.

They're just as ridiculous and overpriced as you'd think.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

If I remember right, OpenAi started with this model too, and they do lots of shady stuff. Not that this is the plan for Proton, but I completely agree that simply creating a nonprofit that owns the for profit brand doesn't guarantee good behavior.

 

So, anybody know a good launcher to use once Nova goes offline?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (6 children)

I still don't know how that works. Discord seems like the worst possible substitute for reddit. It doesn't work at all the same way and search sucks.

 

Curious about everyone's thoughts on this.

Archive link : https://archive.is/Ql81V

 

If you're considering opening a Chase account, here's some food for thought.

 

From the article: "Unsurprisingly, this skyrocketed searches for the best VPNs. According to a SlashGear report sent to Mashable, searches for "Texas VPN" jumped by 1,750 percent in the past day. It also spotted a 1,600 percent increase for the phrase "How to access Pornhub.""

 

tl/dr: email chains used as evidence in DOJ Google antitrust case show internal arguments about drops in # of searches, and how to increase them so that people see more ads. Search team wants to create better search results to keep people coming back.

Advertising team wants to find any way to make people search for as long and as often as possible ("increasing the journey length") even if it means delivering less relevant search results.

You can actually read many of the trial documents here -
https://www.justice.gov/atr/us-and-plaintiff-states-v-google-llc-2020-trial-exhibits

this file was particularly interesting. https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-11/417557.pdf

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