It's been known for some time that the web is changing into the Zero-Click Internet, the name for when users no longer need to click on links...
  • NSRXN@scribe.disroot.orgEnglish
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    3 days ago

    nobody is going to want to create new content when they get paid nothing or almost nothing for doing so.

    that’s a lie

  • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 days ago

    i like to publish content so that bots can scrape it and serve it to people without attribution i think it’s good i think ill publish some more interesting stuff right away

    • e461h@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 days ago

      I believe this is why tech execs and investors are so hot on pushing AI into everything. They’ll control everyone’s digital experience and you can 100% count on being force fed ads and paid propaganda. Embrace, extend, extinguish

      • futatorius@lemm.eeEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Yeah, so much for all those promises of disintermediation being a benefit of the web.

      • gradual@lemmings.worldEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Yep. They have direct control over the flow of information.

        Honestly, Metal Gear Solid 2 was on fucking point.

        And so was 4.

        • conditional_soup@lemm.eeEnglish
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          2 days ago

          I tried playing 2 again recently because I had the same thought, and I had to stop because my wife would not stop laughing at Rose’s dialogue. God, I wish Kojima had ever met a woman.

          • okmko@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 days ago

            And she’s 100% justified. The older you get the more appearant it becomes that he’s bad at writing dialogue and story.

            I could not stop cringing during Death Stranding. I had to fast forward the ending. I imagine Margaret Qualley being completely lost when they were capturing her character’s twin soul melding scene.

            However, Rose’s bad dialogue could be explained as part of the canon because, you know AI, and you never hear herself speak. That’s probably not intentional though so, yeah.

            • conditional_soup@lemm.eeEnglish
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              2 days ago

              I don’t necessarily think he’s bad at writing dialogue and story, I think he’s mostly just bad at writing women. As I’ve gotten older, I went from taking Metal Gear Solid super seriously to treating it like nuclear/techno Evil Dead

              • okmko@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                2 days ago

                Guys in general are bad at portraying women, as I understand. That’s on top of being bad in general for Kojima, I think. There’s a funny interview with the MGS2 English translator Agness Kaku where she comments that the writing was nearly grade school fanfic.

  • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Letting Google break the law for years with illegal anti-competitive practices is now hurting everyone else’s ability to earn money.

    I wonder if we have the combined will to do anything about it, or if we will wait and hope the invisible hand of the market will fix it…

    • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      if we will wait and hope the invisible hand of the market will fix it…

      Have we lost faith in our handsome businessman? /s

  • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pubEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Don’t take this the wrong way, but fuck your business model. The internet was supposed to be open and be ours, and you stole it for profit.

    • aidan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      To be honest: you can still make your own website, and in many ways big companies are actually making it easier through open-source projects and stuff like Let’s Encrypt. The web industry is remarkably open compared to what big companies do in other industries. A lot of the standards meetings and stuff you can just go to and give your opinion. Or ignore the standards and fork it yourself. This alarmism I fear will make people not take the actually alarming things like encryption bans or ID requirements seriously.

      • T156@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Only for some things, though. If you host your own e-mail these days, chances are, you’re going to have a very difficult time sending them anywhere without risking them being deleted, or automatically thrown into spam folders.

  • whotookkarl@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I’m not buying whatever a billionaire nepo baby CEO monopoly owner is pedaling. Let’s hear what some labor leaders have to say about it for a change.

    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      3 days ago

      i’d like to be a labor leader, but i’m not (yet). Yet here’s my opinion:

      Knowledge was meant to be free since the beginning. I look at ideas as human-cultivated, carefully cultured viruses. They’re packages of information that live within a host.

      They’re a lot less aggressive than their feral counterparts, but they’re still individual beings who want to spread. Holding back knowledge is unnatural, and the internet should be free.

      • gradual@lemmings.worldEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Yeah, the odds are really stacked against businesses when it comes to sharing information.

        The fact they’ve been able to keep such a stranglehold on it for so long is really a testament to how much excess power they have over our societies.

        Future generations are laughing at us, and rightfully so.

    • cardfire@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 days ago

      The internet was founded on the sponsorship model where content was free and ads were ubiquitous. while I completely agree with you that I would rather pay for the product instead of being the product, at this informs every single sign up I make on the internet, I think it’s self deluding to think there’s any great again to go back to. The philosophy was always there, the execution just wasn’t possible until they had finished building their walled gardens

    • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      When Orwell predicted universal surveillance he never anticipated that the people themselves would install the cameras, let alone pay a subscription.

    • CalipherJones@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 days ago

      This sounds more like “everyone is on TikTok and Instagram and will only ever be using TikTok and Instagram”.

    • muusemuuse@lemm.eeEnglish
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      4 days ago

      That’s not what will happen. We will have to pay AND be tracked. They are not going to give anything up.

  • wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    4 days ago

    This is all extrapolated from google’s self published survey of how their users interact with their search results. Approximately 60% of users don’t click anything after a search. Personally I think that is because users have found their results to be seo garbage and not worth clicking on… but that’s just my opinion.

    • Jack_Burton@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Of course they don’t click anything. Google search has just become a front-end for Gemini, the answer is “served” up right at the top and most people will just take that for Gospel.

    • CubeOfCheese@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      4 days ago

      I’ve watched a lot of students do a search after I tell them to research something, look through a few of the summaries, then look at me in defeat. I have to tell them to actually click some links to try and find an answer

      • Glitterbomb@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 days ago

        I went to college for networking but the most productive class I’ve ever had where I learned the most about the internet was instead back in high school. This teacher would make 20 page packets with the most obscure questions like what’s the weight of model number 62xRG4 (some obscure car part or something) and he told us to google it. We would spend entire classes just searching for information we would never use, but it drilled into me how to go about finding the information I need. It’s been utterly invaluable. Thank you Mr Ward.

        • cardfire@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          3 days ago

          I love this, so much. Blue Links have been the most critical pass to my future, across my entire life.

          Purple links often, too. I can’t imagine surrendering the ability to sift through information with my own eyes and hands and brain.