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[-] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 122 points 2 years ago

Fucking company town. Google has become a real shit company. Switch your default search to duck duck go or anything else people!

[-] oo1@kbin.social 19 points 2 years ago
[-] stefenauris@pawb.social 8 points 2 years ago

As awesome as it is, it's still a meta search engine so you'd have to remember to exclude Google. Otherwise hosting your own search engine is mega cool!

[-] oo1@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

yeah, using a someone elses public searx (like i do ) just seems unhygienic.

[-] Steeve@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

So this is absolutely a scummy move by google, no doubt, but google employees are some of the highest paid people in the world at this point. Boycott them if you want, but don't feel like you have to right this injustice done to their employees, because they've still got it really good.

Edit: Just so this doesn't come across as a crabs in a bucket type scenario, I am in this field and I am fortunate enough to make similar money, not as much, but equivalent in my country's market. We are not the people that need fighting for, we're the ones that should be fighting for others to have similar opportunities.

[-] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

No I just mean the this is yet another item in a LOOOOOOOONG line of things where Google has gone the pure shit route.

In the last couple years, Google serves me more ads as search results than actual relevant results. The enshitification of the internet is real and I finally see it. I’ve have enough. Between Reddit, twitter, Google, SEO, Facebook and friends, Amazon becoming wish.con, etc everything is just going to shit. Maybe it makes me some old boomer dreaming of the glory days, but I’ve had enough. I refuse to be a product and I refuse to put any money towards these shitmaster overlords if there’s any way I can help it.

[-] Steeve@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

All fair reasons to use another service if that's a deal breaker for sure

[-] kamenoko@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago

Thank you for defining the crab bucket mentally for everyone here!

[-] Steeve@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

You must have just missed my edit

[-] kamenoko@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago

Your edit doesn't do it for me. You guys managed to get remote work, and now it's being taken away. Do you think the pay scale has anything to do with what's going on here?

[-] Steeve@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Google still has fully remote employees, they're asking non remote employees back into the office a few days a week. Last I heard you can still apply to transfer to fully remote.

[-] jackie_jormp_jomp@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

We are not the people that need fighting for

At least not yet. Wait until the capitalists start replacing us with cheaper AI

[-] Steeve@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Lol shiiit stay away from my job ChatGPT!

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