Re:Apple's privacy feature costs ad companies millions
by tannhaeuser on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @05:37PM
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Question is whether there's all that much content worth searching for, when the incentive is to put clickbait left and right, and everybody knows search is heavily gamed and manipulated anyway. Check your recent browsing habits: do you actually visit many sites, and sites you recently discovered via search? Or would searching Wikipedia and stackexchange, say, serve you well enough with some search improvements?
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Re:Apple's privacy feature costs ad companies millions
by mr_toad on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @07:05PM
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90% of the time I just use a search engine to find the page I’m looking for on Stack Overflow or Wikipedia. Without the search engine it’d just take a bit longer
Re:Apple's privacy feature costs ad companies millions
by appachai2 on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @06:25PM
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At least for me Google search is quite helpful. I get into new hobbies every once in a while, travel to new third-world countries. There doesn't exist one or ten places to get this info. I also couldn't imagine living without Google as a college student when the internet was way way younger and immature.
Re:Apple's privacy feature costs ad companies millions
by blub on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @01:53AM
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I don't have to imagine it, we managed fine.
This is perhaps the most insidious thing that Google et al have achieved: making so many believe that they and the online ads they peddle are essential for anything. The world will continue to exist without both.