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Enshitification of the internet. We will soon have to pay for non-AI services…

What a coincidence. bsky.app/profile/gore...

No good reasons, just need to shift over extensions and bookmarks to another browser. What's your go-to?

Can't argue with that. 👍

People will just stop using computers/tablets/phones and buying goods, and go back to libraries for information.

I miss geocities lol I miss the old internet. It was a chaotic mess, but at least it was built with people in mind, and not corporations.

I miss being able to do regex style searches on Altavista

"Hi I see you're trying to search for something on your computer, have you thought of asking the internet about that thing you're looking for on your computer. No? Because it would be pointless? All right. ..."

They really did shove this guy into fucking everything

Yep, sounds like Gmail.

You do you, if you're even human.

Startpage.com

I guess this means Google is having Gemini scan everyone’s Google Drive data. What could possibly go wrong? 😑

I AM SO WITH YOU ON THIS

I do too. The hell with AI. It's so stupid. I really liked the old internet.

Amen.

DuckDuckGo I believe. I don't think they have an AI yet. My kid recommends it. I don't have the energy to keep up with that kind of thing but they still do. And they hate AI, honestly, apparently a lot of gen Z does, I think they're recognizing it's going to take their jobs, lol.

Just yesterday a professor friend said add: - AI to search. Pretty sure that's what she said, try it.

I don't like the way google's trying to funnel people lately. I don't want to go to google for my texts after samsung gets rid of theirs. I don't want to get on drive to look at an email attachment.

Files feeling unloved 😔😢🙁

Get Firefox and use duckduckgo

Search engines are basically yellow pages driven by ai these days. I feel old missing when web searches gave the most expert results

“fart_wip.wav”, “fart_wip1.wav”, “fart_demo.wav” - high quality experimental audio files

I already summarized it when I NAMED THE FOLDER WHEN I MADE IT YOU ASS

more like summarize deez nuts to your chin

I understand where you are coming from. This should be entirely optional as I can see when I'd like to search my files. The thing is that these companies have gone all in and almost can't afford to lose the AI race

If the internet would still work like it did in the early 2k, then new businesses might start that would threaten the current dominance.

Yay for Enshitification! No I'm kidding. That's nothing to get excited about, it's terrible, but it's the future apparently.

I use Duck, Duck, Go, along with the Boolean operator "-AI"

It's very much going to die in the next few years. It's very much unsustainable in the long term. The issue is until it does die we suffer and the environment suffers

It's like a cross between the Talkie Toaster and the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Self Satisfied Door .

So tired of typing -ai into literally every search bar I find myself dealing with that I am about two minutes from tossing all of my electronics into the recycling and churning vegan butter for a living

This. Fucking this. I can't tell you how many times I go to use some app and AI starts trying to take over like an invasive species.

reached the point in my apartment search on the housing sites that have these stupid "smart" searches only where I just type in "apartment" and let it figure out whatever tf that means

"Got it -- You want to look for image(5).jpg! Here is your image: [wrong image] Would you like me to make it piss yellow?"

"Hello, we scanned the entirety of all your files to announce with all the confidence we have that the earth is flat." Also, there's a high chance someone already had E-RP with google drive. Just sayin'

Ah, libraries.

Those were the days.

Yeah, I hate how I was once massively productive doing things my own way, and now I'm forced to slow down and do things their way

Actually, I'll finally reveal the truth about that bastard! In 1996 I was a lowly graphic, but finally got my dream icon audition... but that day I was late. I walked in, and who did I see smiling at Gates like they were old mates. They convinced me being Zune's icon would make up for it. True Evil!

Every generation we have to reinvent clippy.

Maybe as a paid feature one day

wheeze why is it here its a folder with files answer where are my files, bucko

My first time on BlueSky - is it required to talk like this?

*tech bros*

I miss AltaVista.

But, but, Richard Dawkins finally has a friend he can be publicly creepy about.

No, google AI. Until you delete it.