Post #753392
2026-03-24 08:54 UTC
Replies (15)
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@3rdi@mastodon.social 2026-03-24 09:28
@mariafarrell@mastodon.social I don't understand why people use Google. It never gets you what you are looking for.
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@dianshuo@mstdn.io 2026-03-24 09:30
@mariafarrell@mastodon.social as an Ex-BBC (worker! never made it to SM1!) - it is very concerning... and sadly marks a near complete move from media to a tech firm which I think is wrong. Tech is a tool, not the raison d'etre.
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@connynasch@mastodon.social 2026-03-24 10:31
@mariafarrell@mastodon.social "Whether and when they deploy it is a separate question, but the direction is unmistakable – your website may soon be optional." I hope never! However: "If there’s one insight we all need to focus on most, it’s this: your job is no longer to build a destination. It’s to build a parts library." 😒
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@jaypeach53@calckeymusic.social 2026-03-24 10:52
@mariafarrell@mastodon.social FUCK GOOGLE! Use another search engine!
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@i_martinw@chaos.social 2026-03-24 10:59
@mariafarrell@mastodon.social "Don't be evil" When they removed that from their company policies it was clear that this will end up badly.
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@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng 2026-03-24 11:23
@mariafarrell@mastodon.social Yeah, I also just wrote about it earlier: https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/116283811297850580
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@Tock@corteximplant.com 2026-03-24 11:32
@mariafarrell@mastodon.social To me, this simplifies things: -- Build for accessibility, not SEO. (Since 98% of SEO rules are Google's demands.) -- Tell people that google.com now just searches Gemini, not the web. Use another search engine.
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@coleenwalter@mastodon.social 2026-03-24 11:48
@mariafarrell@mastodon.social Normie herę. Also not an artist. Calling us normies is cutesy at best, pejorative at worst. Jargon further confuses and alienates people. It's not that people won't care. Hope my picture explains it better than my words.
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@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie 2026-03-24 11:55
@mariafarrell@mastodon.social Also someone from Meta in Ofcom? You couldn't make it up. Palantir (in the book controlled by Sauron and corrupted most that tried to use them) entwined in the State. Madness. Certainly "blue" Labour and more right wing than Thatcher. They didn't win last time, it was more that the Tories lost.
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@luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-03-24 12:12
@mariafarrell@mastodon.social There's nothing new, in dominant companies squashing anything else. With computer companies it was already the same with IBM, and then Microsoft and Apple, which still do the same today, along with the newcomers of the 2000s. They all, always, prevaricated with the arrogance of those with money, adding from time to time the cosmetic appeal of open source funders, or bogus civil rights defenders.
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@ItsePerkele@expressional.social 2026-03-24 12:19
@mariafarrell@mastodon.social Obviously this is horrible, evil and shit... ... but, I wonder if this sort of bullshittery just ends up splitting the internet. Normies consuming what google injects into their eyes and the others enjoying stuff like The Web Revival stuff. After Discord started to make noises about the age verification stuff, I had enough, deleted my account, installed a IRC client, found a couple of nice servers and channels and I have been having a blast. There's so many people who do self hosting, have silly websites powered by solar panels that sometimes drop off because its cloudy, have stupid neocities websites with flame backgrounds and visitor counters. Wonderful stuff like that. I've been thinking of building one of those early-mid 2000's forums. I miss those. I just need to learn how to do... everything. For me, google can do whatever the fuck they want and the morons can follow them. I'll be in my little corner of the internet with people. Not in reddit with bots.
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@elaterite@mastoart.social 2026-03-24 15:48
@mariafarrell@mastodon.social Ya, saw that about an ex-google executive running the BBC--I'll be deleting that bookmark--but I didn't know about this new AI abomination. At the rate that the oligarchs are enshittifing everything I'll be able to experience what it was like with no Internet again before I die...and it will be nice.
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@kevinrns@mstdn.social 2026-03-24 18:33
@mariafarrell@mastodon.social Get RID OF Starmer.
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@kitkat_blue@mastodon.social 2026-03-24 19:19
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@SebastianGallehr@norden.social 2026-03-25 06:17
@mariafarrell@mastodon.social How will this work? Can only be browser specific. So recommendation is to use #firefox anyway instead of Chrome. In Firefox the website will hopefully be displayed as published even in the future.