Competition. It’s all about competition between companies. In highly saturated markets ads serve to build brand recognition and are seen as long term investment to gain market share. Good example is TikTok. The social media market is very much saturated and competition very high, so TikTok’s strategy was to buy every ad they could to create brand recognition, which in turn helped gaining market share.

So I don’t think the ad business is a bubble at all, it’s just that the usefulness and function depends on the market a company competes within.

I agree, the voters wouldn’t disappear but it would take time for them to find a new party to vote for. The time difference might be worth it.

Also if you check your Google Photos privacy settings there is a toggle for “Approximate missing locations” which tells me that Google is most definitely also using private images as training data and not only street view.

Easier said than done:

1. Admit there’s a problem
2. Find a sustainable solution
3. Fight for the solution
4. Enjoy a better society

I think many people don’t realize they focus too much on short-term issues, which are actually symptoms of deeper systemic problems. For instance, the two-party system in the US stems from election campaigns not being publicly funded and also the “winner-takes-all” electoral system instead of proportional representation. I would bet you already know about these issues but still I don’t see them being discussed in media and that’s where every big change must begin. And that’s also what I think should answer your question. Instead of spreading awareness of the current problems at hand, you should focus on the deep issues and instead spread awareness of them. That’s my opinion at least.

Yeah and I’d say these people left are exactly those Elon wants, he doesn’t want white guys in their 50s, he wants obedient young guys.

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Not trying to defend him, but I thought the reasoning behind doing that was to get the least obedient people to leave the company so that there won’t be a delayed push back from the employees.

Google Cloud counts about 60% of the world’s 1,000 biggest companies and 90% of generative AI unicorns as its customers

What exactly are generative AI unicorns?

I bet what they all have in common is that they all used advertising in order to get to their position.

What kagi can’t fix is that most forums nowadays don’t exist anymore and moved over to discord which is also a big reason for worse search results.

For example I had a technical problem with a device of mine, searched for maybe half an hour on Google until I joined a related Discord. Searching there in the support channel and I found the fix for my problem. Would Discord not exist and all the content be queryable by Google I would have found my answer within seconds.

That’s illegal in Germany though, right? AFAIK all ads must be disclosed as such.

Some services only accept whitelisted domains for accounts sadly.

The ECHR is separate to the EU.

Just me or does it look like the guy on the left is holding a hand puppet

Yeah I know but what about Lemmy instances?

Hm but don’t you automatically own the stuff you create yourself, as long as you don’t consent to giving it away? I don’t know the terms and conditions of my Lemmy instance though.

What’s the actual argument behind banning TikTok though? IMO it’s just so that US firms remain the monopoly in the social media market.

Thank you, that’s a great platform I did not think existed.