alt Hacker NewsGoogle wants you to use it. If it blacklists excess domains that hold legitimate sites, their product gets worse. If they blacklist illegitimate sites, their product gets better.
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zenapollo • yesterday at 4:00 PM
Cute. That is the commenter’s whole point about monopolies. Google is on record making their product worse to squeeze revenue. We’ve been living in the enshitification economy.
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lazide • yesterday at 3:51 PM
Same as for those antiviruses.
This argument would hold more weight if Google didn't have a history of making their own products worse and then getting rid of them.