alt Hacker NewsGoogle also famously intent Isla made their search engine _worse_ so you have to look through more results, and then see more ads.
The enshitificstion begins.
The only saving grace is the promise to have an ad-free tier.
If something is valuable to you, paying for it to not have ads is very reasonable.
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johannesrexx • today at 12:11 AM
The [enshittification](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification) begins.
Fixed that for you, and I agree fully with that assessment.
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Paying to remove the ads likely doesn’t also remove all the other design decisions based on maximizing ad revenue rather than utility for users.