Listened to it on a long drive. I knew all of the big players were sketchy, but did not expect the degree to which they are. Google “brand-matching” searches (adding invisible brand names to search queries) to direct people to brands’ sites and then charging those same brands for “more traffic” is just cartoon villain level shit.
I’m reading Cory Doctorow’s latest book, Enshittification. As Ed Zitron said, never forgive them for what they did to the internet…
Listened to it on a long drive. I knew all of the big players were sketchy, but did not expect the degree to which they are. Google “brand-matching” searches (adding invisible brand names to search queries) to direct people to brands’ sites and then charging those same brands for “more traffic” is just cartoon villain level shit.