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Natural enshittification, planned sabotage, or both?

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[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 16 points 9 hours ago

When it comes to Google - I think it's just plain old greed. They want to keep you as long as they can at google.com so serving up shit means you'll keep googling. Also - I assume every single search is used to turn us all into AI guinea pigs.