• that_one_guy@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    This is great news. Not allowing Facebook to pretend it’s some sort of valid place to find information will be a net positive for Canada. Not being able to find news through google easily will be annoying, but I’ll just go directly to several news sites instead.

  • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgOPM
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    1 year ago

    i’m sure Canadians are really peeved about this one, it’d really suck if Facebook weren’t allowed to continue promoting far-right misinformation, genocide denial, anti-vaccine bullshit and other goodies into everyone’s feed

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    1 year ago

    Happy to see Meta booted from the industry, but I’m a bit concerned about Google no longer indexing news articles here…

    • Butterbee (She/Her)@beehaw.org
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      Google is more interested in serving page after page of ads and boilerplate and ai generated articles. I don’t think them not indexing things is as relevant as it used to be

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        Ever since I’ve switched to DuckDuckGo, my searching experience has been way better. Google’s new mobile experience is absolute garbage.

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      If this marks the return of people actually picking up a newspaper (or the digital equivalent), that’d be fantastic. Not holding my breath, but one can hope.