Alphabet’s primary source of income is from advertising on Google, and yet they’re trying to move searchers on to Gemini, their ai search ... which has few advertisers.
Even ignoring the costs involved with ai (for google), this doesn’t sound like a sound financial move.
The first image is my local newspaper's home page. The ad is - it seems - immovable - so you can't get at the navigation bar.
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Not only is this of no interest to me, but the stats on this one are rather strange 🤔
This is the 'cookie' notice for a rather niche online magazine. Its content is not well suited with the amount of companies getting visitors' data.
If you use DuckDuckGo as your search engine, the 'search' page gives information on tracking and pop-ups that it has blocked. Here's a few at random from my web history.
Some are no surprise [a newspaper that makes money from ads and selling data], others more of a surprise [ebay and temu being quite low, for example].
But one really stands out. Yep, the UK's public broadcaster. What are they doing with all that data?
The Internet is now a store - it used to be a library.
I agree.
This was on my X feed. My bio on that site includes ; 'Nottingham Forest season ticket holder ... and fan since forever'. So the chances of me buying a Liverpool FC shirt ... ?
