Let me just sneak a tracking device on you too this will let anyone who pays me know where you are and where you’ve been and what you’ve looked at and your name and height and family members and friends and where you work and we’re working on finding out what you had for dinner last night too

Last night I just wanted a list of Marx Brothers movies and got a pop up of “Heyyyyy… why don’t you tell us what streaming services you subscribe to so we can help you better.”

“Why don’t you fuck right off with that shit?”

I had the f12 developer console thing open recently when I went to do a Google search and was blown away that a basic Google search has over 12 megabytes of network traffic flying around. My ad blockers and such blocked most of it, so it’s clearly not required.

google was a perfect product. I’m talking early 2000s.

If it wasn’t for the need for endless growth it would have remained extremely profitable and competitive. but every quarter they have to show growth. Either buy making bs services they later kill, or buying profitable businesses then enshitifying them.