Perhaps this is how they're trying to solve the factuality problem of their LLM? Limit the sources to a known good allowlist. Train the AI answers model on those. If that's what's happening, it would be ironic that they'd have to undo their search results enshittification in order to overcome the LLM's inherent flaws. Of course the regular search results could keep being shitty. In fact they might get worse depending on the cost of the AI Mode.

Google's methods are shitty and exploitative, yes, but this is far from "censoring". And "censor" is not used just for a clickbait title - the author claims "censorship" multiple times in the article before I stopped reading for health reasons (the doctor says if I keep rolling my eyes, my ocular muscles will spasm and eject my eyeballs).

Really wish people would stop wielding powerful words irresponsibly.

Not saying you're wrong but people use words that are useful in conveying to their target audience. Denylisting by the search monopolist is perceived as censorship by many.

Bombast aside, I think the process and its implications are interesting and people need to be aware.

Agreed. It makes some solid points, and it seems well-researched in the way of exposing how the search-result hotdogs are made (at least in the 2/3 or so that I read). I just couldn't stomach the way it was framed as "censorship".

I'm very passionate about "words have meanings" and strongly dislike when words typically reserved to describe mountains are inappropriately used (and watered down) to describe mole hills.

We need other ways to discover shit on the internet.

I don't know, maybe bring back the fucking webrings or something.

Fediverse... You are here

Yeah, but this only works because we are so few still, when the masses floods in anywhere, everything turns to shit. Because of greed

You aint wrong. I am not sure how federation will handle prime time tbh

They've been doing shit like that* without AI for decades. But yeas, it's getting worse all the time.

* censor | suppress - tomatos | tomatoes

Would you prefer "suppress"?

Also, wouldn't your eyes bounce right back since they're attached with a sort of rubber band?

No, because nothing is being actively suppressed, either. The gist of it is that they're basically being ignored which is completely separate from active measures like censorship or suppression.

We need other ways to discover shit on the internet.

DuckDuckGo - Protection. Privacy. Peace of mind.

The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.

DuckDuckGo (duckduckgo.com)

The Internet Used to be a Place

There are still active webrings:

sadgrl.online webring directory
digilord.neocities.org/webring
webringworld.org
brisray webring list

I seek out out-of-the-way websites maintained by one or two people and then subscribe by RSS. RSS may be the only thing left keeping the web sane.

https://kagi.com/smallweb

Man it's miss the nethernet

Like a block chain - like system where each site gets listed.

As one Google executive recently explained: “Organizing information is clearly a trillion-dollar opportunity, but a trillion dollars is not cool anymore. What’s cool is a quadrillion dollars.”

Any exec saying remarks like this should be old yellered.

I'm saying this being fully aware of what I just said, and I say it because of what it implies.

It requires massive poverty, massive control, massive casualties, people dying from whatever comes with that level of poverty, just so that a few assholes can brag about a quadrillion dollars.

Fuck

That

Shit

We need to start hard capping maximum sizes in companies. No company can employ more than 1000 people. No company can have a net worth of over one billion dollar. When a company goes over the met worth, handle it with taxes. When it reaches the employee max, that's it, can't hire no more.

We also need to hard cap personal wealth. Both income and net worth must be taxed in brackets. Nobody should be allowed to own more than 10 million (or whatever is a sane max maybe less, maybe a little bit more)

The lowest of the low pay no taxes, they have no money to do so. Then the next starts with 5, 10, etc. middle class should pay around 30 like in most countries. After that it goes up and up until you reach 100% for income, and whatever % is required to put the person's net worth back into that 10 million limit.

With this we don't have a single quadrillion dollar company with a king that will soon enough fail, we'll have thousands of multi million companies, thousands of owners of which some might fail, others won't. Tax income will be so much that we can quite easily fund a giant social support system, free healthcare (physical and mental, eyes and teeth), free education, universal income to ensure everyone can live nicely

NOBODY has the right to be a billionaire, it is not a right, it is not a privilege, it should be forbidden and the very fact that it's not is a cancer on humanity.

This "quadrillion" asshole is a clear and present danger to humanity, it's the seed of a cancer that will destroy us all.