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📣 Nel giugno 2025, nel suo rapporto ONU, ha incluso Google tra le aziende che “finanziano il genocidio a Gaza” fornendo tecnologie a .

Oggi chi cerca il suo nome su Google vede per primo un annuncio sponsorizzato diffamatorio, non la sua pagina ufficiale segno che è diventato uno strumento geopolitico per modellare l’opinione pubblica.

🛑 Evitiamo i : le alternative europee esistono e sono su: https://scegli.app

seguici sul gruppo: @sicurezza@diggita.com

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«“One of the things that must be going on in the economy,” Weisenthal said to Cembalest, “is everybody's margin becoming Facebook's profits, or everybody's margins eventually becoming Alphabets profits.” [...] Cembalest pretty much said that big tech is gradually taking over everything in the economy, that these large firms own key “real estate” everyone must use. »

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-is-google-still-in-one-piece

putting wrong medical advice in their Overviews.

This is not funny. It is not acceptable. Today I saw someone who had asked a health-related question to Google Search. The AI Overview presented mixed-up, wrong information. I urged the person to ignore the AI Overview and use the regular site links.

They didn't know there were any regular site links, because the AI Overview filled essentially their entire window and they didn't know to scroll down. This is a common situation with busy, nontechie users.

They have depended on Google to point them at accurate information for so many years, and now Google Search spews out convincing looking AI garbage. This is not an anomaly.

Google's AI Overviews are full of wrong, partially wrong (even more dangerous!), and just plain misinformation. Answers that are completely reversed from supposed source pages because the AI …

«Mozilla has found that Bing doesn’t monetize traffic as efficiently as Google»
https://www.theverge.com/news/660548/firefox-google-search-revenue-share-doj-antitrust-remedies

What can this mean, if not that sells out users (and their personal data) harder, thanks to their abuse of a monopolistic position? If Google's abusive monopoly profits stopped, this premium would vanish for too. How can DoJ say that it's fine for it to continue? Getting a cut from a criminal cartel is not a right.

Other remedies will need to compensate.

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🚨 Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever! 🥳

1 in 10 people actively choose NOT to use . What's your favorite search engine?

Read more: 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/google-search-dominance-drops

Icon of google search with a downward trend showing decline

Oh gosh, it's true, you really can enter a completely nonsense phrase into Google, ask for its meaning, and lo and behold, Google's AI will make shit up.

So if you've ever wondered what "to grow an avocado, you have to slap the squirrel" means, now you know.

Screenshot from a google search for "to grow an avocado you have to slap the squirrel meaning". "AI overview: The saying "to grow an avocado, you have to slap the squirrel" is a play on words, suggesting that the old method of dispersing avocado seeds, which relied on large mammals, is no longer effective due to their extinction. This is because avocados are an evolutionary anachronism, still requiring dispersal methods from before the decline of large mammals. Here's why: The Old Method: In the past, large mammals would eat avocado fruits, digest the seeds, and then disperse them in their droppings, effectively planting them in new locations. The Problem: Today, without large mammals to carry the seeds, avocados often rot where they fall or are eaten by smaller animals like squirrels. Humans as the Solution: Humans now take the role of dispersing avocado seeds through planting and cultivation. The saying highlights the evolutionary disconnect between avocados and the current ecosystem, emphasizing that their reliance on large mammals for dispersal is no longer sustainable." And then right at the bottom it says "Generative AI is experimental." No shit, Sherlock.

«It’s unusual now to allege that or are bulwarks of fascism, but back then, seeing bigness as a political alternative to democracy was routine.»

«There is no world in which flourishes as a and America flourishes as a political democracy. We must choose. Since the 1970s, we have chosen poorly, and Americans have become more tolerant of authoritarianism in politics, as it just doesn’t seem that different than what they see in commerce.»

https://web.archive.org/web/20250421065154/https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-monopolies-and

Substantial layoff at Google this morning, locations around the world. IT and helpdesk hit hard. To be fair, they’re hard-pressed, last quarter’s earnings a mere $26.54B, that’s a narrow 27.51% profit margin.

Abbandonare i servizi per proteggere la e favorire gli sviluppatori indipendenti è possibile e auspicabile

Personalmente sono "Google free" da tempo, zero problemi e zero rimpianti

@itsfoss ha pubblicato una guida che si trova qui: https://itsfoss.com/leaving-google-ecosystem/

Ma a casa nostra abbiamo @lealternative (https://www.lealternative.net/), i @devol (https://devol.it/), @ufficiozero (https://ufficiozero.org/) che offorno o consigliano servizi alternativi, liberi ed etici

Let's switch over.