Riley@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago"Kids Can't Use Computers" is now ten years old, and it's only gotten worsewww.coding2learn.orgexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down11
arrow-up1-1arrow-down1external-link"Kids Can't Use Computers" is now ten years old, and it's only gotten worsewww.coding2learn.orgRiley@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.ml · 1 year agomessage-square10fedilink
minus-squarequeermunist she/her@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down3·1 year agoGood thing search engines are optimized for advertising instead of utility!
minus-squareshortwavesurfer@monero.townlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoI use searx and DNS level adblocking. Online ads are almost a completely foreign concept for me as 99.9% of the time they just never even load.
minus-squarequeermunist she/her@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·1 year agoI remember when Google used to be perfectly functional as long as you knew the right search tools. Now it thinks it knows what I’m searching for better than I do, and that almost always means pointing me towards something someone paid for lol
Good thing search engines are optimized for advertising instead of utility!
I use searx and DNS level adblocking. Online ads are almost a completely foreign concept for me as 99.9% of the time they just never even load.
I remember when Google used to be perfectly functional as long as you knew the right search tools. Now it thinks it knows what I’m searching for better than I do, and that almost always means pointing me towards something someone paid for lol