• Gamers_mate@beehaw.org
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    3 hours ago

    Lets trust the company with an illegal monopoly with verification checkmarks I am sure nothing will go wrong.

  • suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml
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    6 hours ago

    Thus forcing everone to wonder why, if they believe some results are fraudelent, they are showing them to us at all.

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      49 minutes ago

      Hovering over a checkmark will display a message that explains “Google’s signals suggest that this business is the business that it says it is,” which is determined by things like

      I guess this due diligence cost time and money. And doing this due diligence for every ad customer might affect their bottom line.

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      The playbook as I understand it is that they offer a community improvement for free at first to get you hooked and then once everyone is entirely reliant upon it that’s when they do the rug pull.

      So there is a good chance that Google search will improve for the next 6 to 18 months while they are doing this just know that this is a temporary reprieve from the enshittification solely to prime the engine for the enshittification to get massively worse.