Re:Every Google result now looks like an ad
by masswerk on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @03:22PM
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Users used to care about paths and other descriptors. A decade ago, we were fighting for human readable resource locators. However, users have been taught progressively to ignore them as too complex. (Just the same as it happened for any advanced, but user accessible browser controls.) Why is it that 25 years into web usage, any controlled access is deemed too complicated? (Mind that other technologies were already approaching the end of their lifespan at a similar age. The web is neither new nor disruptive anymore.)
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Re:Every Google result now looks like an ad
by userbinator on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @08:32PM
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Why is it that 25 years into web usage, any controlled access is deemed too complicated?
Two words: corporate greed. It's so much easier to persuade and herd them to where they can be "monetised" when they don't know how things work, nor can't figure out how and where to learn.
Re:Every Google result now looks like an ad
by masswerk on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @02:09AM
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Somehow the knowledge industry has turned into dumbing down as a business. There's a TV ad for a smart speaker integrated car, showing a hip, but managerial type man downloading the route to his workplace to his car by a voice command from home and subsequently happily arriving at work. – How do you manage to make a living, if you can't memorize you daily drive from home to work? How is this a product? Has augmentation of human intellect turned into a zero-sum game?
Re:Every Google result now looks like an ad
by bickeringyokel on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @02:56AM
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I use navigation to avoid heavy traffic. Most of the time it changes nothing but sometimes saves 30 minutes of driving.