Nonsense. Your metaphor is not analogous.
Sophisticated tech firms do extensive analysis with reference groups, A/B testing, et cetera.
Guaranteed, they’ve found that they get better engagement with their product through these AI results.
This might shock you but a group of 14 year olds complaining on Lemmy is not an indicative sample of opinions.
Hyperbole & subjective. Flatpaks aren’t all that.
My point is, it seems like moat people disagree with you given that search providers put this stuff in their results.
Obviously I pay for a search engine. The advertising funded web is shit.
That’s true, but I think people still appreciate it… like it’s accurate enough, enough of the time, for people to find it helpful.
I like kagi more than ddg. It’s not free but meh.
Ugh. Do you really want that though? They do have a store don’t they? Just no one wants to use it.
Debian has had a browseable catalog since forever but it’s still waaay better to just go to a third party’s website and see how they say to install whatever thing.
I feel like most commenters here would think “no one wants the stupid ai response”, but obviously some people like it or they wouldn’t do it. I think if your searches are more general kind of “can I catch chicken pox from chickens” type questions it might be helpful ?
Dude. When you’re looking at whatever search just right click in the url bar and there will be an option to add that search engine. Then in settings you can make it your default if you wish.
The reason I don’t use SearXNG is because the public instances always seem to be slow and or broken.
It’s nice to be nice.
The flag looks a bit like a disgruntled goose.
I’m with mxroute.
Cheap but serviceable.
I was with them for 10 years.
They are great, it’s true.
The pricing just got egregious though.
Sure “some”, but not many.
For most people I think that other attributes become more desirable than physical beauty. The biological imperative to reproduce with the most physically attractive person you can find diminishes significantly.
This.
In this thread everyone is going to be single from 40 onwards apparently.
is my instinct here outdated/inapplicable?
Yes.
It’s so cheap to send SMS messages, and you don’t pay for undeliverable messages, so they can just send to random numbers.
They also receive deliverability responses for each number. So they know whether a phone received the message whether or not you reply.
Finally, if you reply STOP you’re unlikely to fit their demographic very well anyway. As in… they’re not trying to reach the type of people who will actively try to avoid receiving these messages.
That said, there’s probably no point replying STOP because most firms just wont honor it in the long term. As in they might not message you for the remainder of that particular messaging project (campaign), but they’ll just start a new campaign tomorrow with a new sender and no “STOP” requests.
The objective ought to be more engagement, not more users.
It seems like everyone is here to have snarky little “I’m more right than you” arguments.
I think you missed the joke.
You’re not just “disagreeing”. You’re trotting out GOP propaganda, much like a bot programmed to do so.
I’m having a hard time believing that you actually believe what you’re saying.
… and yet here we are ?