• TWeaK@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    More interesting is what came out during the deposition: Google straight up changes your search terms to give you results that trigger paid advertisements. Eg if you search for “children’s shirts” it will swap for “[brandname] shirts” and show you ads for that brand.

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    1 year ago

    Cool story, ngl I think Jedi Blue is a blacklisted phrase on Reddit, it’s not talked about at all and discussion is suppressed. I thought the case went away, but I think it got bundled into the bigger antitrust case. Fuck Google