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Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible
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this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2023
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It’s bizarre that you think the EU market it small enough to be dispensable. When GDPR came into force, many US sites had to reject EU traffic. But that was only temporary for the most part. They knew it wasn’t smart for business to exclude the EU so they got their compliance issues sorted.
I would love that actually. But it’s not reality. In reality what happens is the search engines deliver a shit-ton of unusable garbage results that I would rather not see. E.g. sites that block Tor users, CAPTCHAs, giant cookie popups, etc.
If a search engine were to filter out the garbage, it would be a great start to solving the shitty web problem.
The EU has a larger population than the US, that's not a market you just leave. Also, Europe is not the same as the European Union.
The EU has a PPP GDP of $24.05 trillion compared to the US' $25.4 trillion. That is a market of significant size and leaving it will affect Google's bottom line.
You can compare Alabama and France all you want, that is irrelevant. Or should I perhaps start comparing Mississippi and Luxembourg?
Lastly, I don't know if you've noticed but Google isn't the only search engine in existence. Bing, Qwant et al. will gladly fill the void that Google leaves behind.
Don't worry there are others than Google on the market also. If they want to make space for competition it's actually a good thing.
We already can't due to Google's pushing of irrelevant promoted sites and failing to take meaningful action against SEO in recent years.
Hope you enjoy being laid off when your company eats itself to keep the growth going for just a little longer to please the capitalist parasites known as "shareholders". You can't much money from ads when the economy is utterly, utterly in the shitter like it is right now, not nearly as much as you used to. You really think that the average person has the financial leeway to buy luxury goods or pricier options shown in ads when the budget barely covers food, bills, rent and transport costs, and everything they do buy must be the cheapest thing they can get their hands on? Your company, and all other internet companies supported by ads, made a pact with the devil, and now he has come to collect his due. I will enjoy seeing you all go hard into the red.
What economy are you living in? In the US at least inflation is down, real wages are up, GDP and the stock markets are up, employment numbers are stellar...even income inequality is trending the right way. The only thing that's "bad" is interest rates, and there's an argument to be made they were too low to begin with before.
One where the average rent has now eclipsed the average mortgage repayment, and where all we export to the rest of the world is raw resources that are less in demand than ever
I get by fine with Duckduckgo and Ecosia, thank you very much.
Google's recruiting standards must've dipped because I can't fathom a Googler would be this ignorant. You know there are competing search engines, right?
You're right, Google and Bing are the only two search engines in the world. Trolls gotta troll, I guess. Blocked.