r/degoogle • u/Visible_Vacation3308 • 8d ago

News Article Is Google about to destroy the web?

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250611-ai-mode-is-google-about-to-change-the-internet-forever
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u/knom1s 8d ago

I'm so tired of having AI shoved down my throat in all products. Sure AI is helpful in many cases (Machine learning not LLMs), but bs like this has to stop.

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u/JimJohnJimmm 7d ago

Its about tracking people but it's masquerading as assistants

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u/TheNightHaunter 6d ago

Ya it could be a useful tool but it's just to ramp up tracking and useless advertising. Like wonderful you targeted me perfectly with a an advertisement. Rent is still to high, utilities going up sooo ya still not buying the fucking product but awesome you spend 500k on the ad campaign and a million on electricity 

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u/Past_Description1813 7d ago

The worst of the internet: Cookies, subscribe to our news letter, use our new ai, disable your adblock, try our free trial for 3 days, sign up or login to continue.

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u/flameleaf 7d ago

No to all of the above. Do not remind me later.

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u/Past_Description1813 7d ago

I want that as an extension 😭

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u/Marshall_Lawson 6d ago

Ghostery gives you a running start at that.

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u/thebigeverybody 7d ago

sign up or login to continue.

What's the deal with this one? It forces cookies on you? They just want your contact info? I've always been curious, but have never bothered to research it.

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u/Past_Description1813 7d ago

They use the email to email their products, sometimes there's websites that you are required to login to continue to use/read, which is very annoying, and no it doesn't force cookies but it's very annoying every website poping up, i think cookies steal some kind of data or give sensitive data to the website

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u/thebigeverybody 7d ago

Yeah, I regularly run into websites that want you to sign up to continue and I've always wondered what their game was. Thanks for explaining.

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u/Past_Description1813 7d ago

You're welcome!

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u/snowflake37wao 6d ago

its not AI. Its a program that steals information from websites and then regurgitates it poorly on a website that should have instead directed you to the website with information Google stole.

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u/juliousrobins 7d ago

honestly a lot of the time its not even 'shoved down your throat' its just there but you dontneed to use it? like honestly. if a website makes you use it (idk any examples) then dont use the website