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And often I don't get a say in what browser to use, cuz fricking public libraries or workstations at work all have Chrome by default, and I can't just always use my personal work laptop whenever I wish.
Lol nobody gives a shit about Edge.
Like I know I've bitched and moaned about how trash Google is, but every time i see something which encapsulates just HOW brokenshit horrifyingly bad shit has become in just 10 years alone. Video is about 26 min, I'll summarize the bullet points - as in each point is horrifying enough to put a bullet into your own head 
[1] Even though Google has been proven to be worse than a decade ago through incompetence, beyond that Google ALSO makes their search results ACTIVELY worse and DELIBERATELY worse. Why???
They need people to "suffer", aka spend more time wrestling with the system because that leads to retention of attention - in other words, the longer a user spends on the Google frontpage to search for shit, the longer they can be exposed to advertisements. And it doesn't matter that 100% of dramatards have adblock, 80% of users are turbo boomer normies who don't know any better and/or are willing to tolerate ungodly amounts of spammy ads and and shit.
[2] Both men are aghast the Top Level Leadership of Google is to actively go against the very objective of the Product of Google: where the original intention of Google was to aid people in finding stuff on the internet, and thus it's bad for ad revenue if peeps find stuff IMMEDIATELY.
One man interestingly makes a comment that he cannot think of many industries which deliberately makes a worse product for the goal of greater income, to which his co-host immediately replies that there are many non-software examples: such as the proliferation of Shrinkflation (trying to sell smaller products for the same price, hoping consumers won't notice), or planned obsolescence (the practice of designing products to break quickly or become obsolete in the short to mid-term, so as to sell more of it to the same targets), and so on. Thus it's unsurprising that Google would follow the same pattern.
[3] From the discussion came that Google deliberately tries to get people to spend time up until page 2 of search results, as that is the maximum target page searchers reach before giving up entirely or using another search engine - the fricks at Google do this for the sake of DOUBLING the potential adverts shown to people.
[4] I knew reddit results shown behind searches increased the likeliness of getting tech or hardware help, but I wasn't aware Google had an active fricking business PARTNERSHIP with reddit which actively promoted reddit's fricking search results.
[5] Google is constantly looking to datascrape "curated" content like reddit subreddits, in order to have databases from which to pull from in their AI models. But it's also small forum sites which Google is pillaging, which in turn could end up being the death of small scale hobby specialist forums or websites.
An example being talked was a metric shitload of AI spam in places like Youtube Shorts, where AI generated crap outnumbers the legitimate content. An example cited between the two men was AI Bloat trash having taken over Gardening Instruction Videos on Youtube and especially Youtube Shorts.
And Yes darmatards 
I know you high IQ guys probably hate and don't like Youtube Shorts, and I don't either, and I personally don't give a shit about gardening either - but I do care about widescale internet link rot and consolidation, and Gardening Hobbies and other niche shit being fricked over by AI spam will never remain contained.
And apparently many of these smallscale hobbyist channels or sites fricked by AI span were reliant on Youtube Shorts to get a foot in the door of attracting a beginner audience.
Deviant Art has been positively spammed by AI Slop shit - I would scroll cool DA art on my phone and be excited to find my feed clogged up with dogshit uncanny valley bullshit
Thus Google's AI generated bullshit may end up being the death of niche hobbyist websites or communities.
[6] Soooooo much AI spam crap already exists on all corners of the internet, that AI models scraping shit like Deviant Art for example are being polluted by existing AI art - so that they frick up the models, because these new art are not always labelled as AI, and currently AI is too stupid to detect IF art is AI to begin with.
Thus a perpetual incestuous cycle can begin, where the uncanny valley might be increased constantly 
And this is also the reason the men are most Doomposting in their talk 
because AI or Gemini shit replacing tech support search or niche hobby/topic websites would mean future content be perpetually degrading AI swill to support it.
Thoughts dramatards?
Also it's official: what not-chrome alternative is the best, how does Opera GX compare or is it gaymer trash
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This neighbor did not just seriously consider using opera gx lmfao
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Youtubers won't lie to me
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I have 2 edge, 2 chrome, firefox, and opera open at any given time, with dozens of tabs each
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What's the point of having ram if you don't use it right?
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Man, I was looking at the PC building subreddit and these BIPOCs are recommending 64gb of ram.
What the frick are you BIPOCs doing with 64 gigs of ram? Like the bulk of good games are all CPU intensive and not ram intensive. I have 16 gigs of ram and I never even get close to maxing that sucker out.
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I upgradeded to 32 (ddr3 albiet) just so I could live the way I want to in peace
by the way what do those numbers mean bc it aint tabs I dont think
edge is for youtube!
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Visual Studio, Photoshop, Gimp, Two browsers, a couple of VMs.
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If you have photoshop you do NOT need
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ramdisk make stable diffusion go brr
good for VMs too
compile AUR apps faster
use high resolution instrument sample libraries at the same time
for gaming, 16GB is enough, unless you're playing high ram use games with mods on top
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Running large AI models, offloading vram to system ram to allow for the huge LLMs.
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Those reddit g*mers arent doing that shit. They just see big numbers and want it like the manchild they are.
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Running bots in separate VMs so the fingerprints look legit.
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Lmao I used to have 16gb and would have to close shit to run certain games all the time.
I never do with 64gb though.
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ha me too. Brave, Edge, and Chrome for me but once this PC boots hopefully not soon, I'll have to port to FF.
Krayon sexually assaulted his sister.
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Do you have tabs open for the same site with different themes?
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same with bravecels
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That's why I use only the greatest definitely-not-just-modified-chromium browser Vivaldi
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actuyally good browser, only next to
@EdgeShill
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Firefox sucks and mozilla is infested with deranged
s
Just use Brave
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You mean inoculated instead of infested. Everything is trains, and if you hinge your happiness on not seeing them you'll end up like the obese black woman meme people.
So stick with what you know integrates trains well, instead of what might fail down the line because it was too weak to integrate them. !nonchuds
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You missed the point
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No thanks. In this one situation I'll go with the
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I use both
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Linoox already has drivers written in rust. It's never been more over for privacy oriented open sores neurodivergents.
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Wait how is rust bad for privacy?
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Creepers can peep in through the rust holes.
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It's not bad for privacy, it just makes humiliation rituals a requirement to entry.
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brother i know
is cool and whatever but unless mozilla is literally selling 
to 
or some shit (which would be 
) literally who cares
yeah they support
oids, they're literally the 
making the browser secure
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Mullvad browser
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Firefox isn't even named on the chart. It is so over for Mozillacels.
How did they manage to blow being the second most popular browser across the 2000s into this level of irrelevance? Googlebux bribing them to gimp themselves?
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diversity hires building woke products. Not even lying. When you donate to wikipedia it does not go to the chad autismos doing the articles, but instead to fund some feminist transgender PHds
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Mozilla spends more money every year on social causes than it does on Firefox
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!wikihaters discuss
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please add me to this ping group
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Send in an application cutiepie
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applied, inshallah the wiki fricks shall taste the wrath of allah
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Fun fact: the "chad autismos" are also
s. Not only are they 
s but they're also jannies and fact laundering protojournoids, and glownigs to boot
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Mozilla leadership sucks and everything, but the main moral here seems to be branding. Google, Apple, Samsung, Microsoft can all shill their browsers to their customer bases. Firefox relies on word of mouth among tech nerds. Even if they ran ad campaigns, how can that compete with normies opening their Samsung phones and clicking the Samsung Internet™ button?
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They did try to make a FirefoxOS mobile phone.
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If they win over enough technerds who control normie PCs, they might gain some momentum. I remember when I used to install chrome onto other people's computers
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Yep. I was using Chrome before I was using Android
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Useless people at the top happy to keep hiking their own salaries while their userbase dwindles further every year.
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Opera gx is pure zoomer bloatware dont use it.
If you want a browser with the lowest ram use then use edge or safari depending on ur os of choice.
If you want to totally ditch chromium use firefox/waterfox/librewolf.
If you want chromium with less slop use brave/vivaldi (it's basically where the old opera devs went)/ ungoogled chromium.
Also id recommend getting off google search. I personally pay for kagi but feel free to try DDG/bing or yandex or brave search.
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How come nobody mentions opera is a chinkglowie op
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Vivaldi is where the old opera went after the chincoms bought them out
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It is and it's great because the chinks don't care about me at all, they don't try to sell me anything, they don't care about my political opinions etc.
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I honestly kinda like Edge's Copilot for search for certain questions, it's good when you conversationally describe something. Like "what's a name of x thing with this shape and color/this thing happening" etc., chatGPT-like AI has good hit rate for these, traditional search engines not so much.
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How is kagi? How often do you find yourself going back to Google or whatever because you can't find something with it?
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Uh never. I use yandex specifically to find priracy streaming sites.
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Do you think it's as good as Google used to be?
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besides the search engine everything they make is slop, but even that's compromised by corpos. bring back yt annotations
and use firefox lmao
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chrome is a good browser, they just use their dominance to frick everything else
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The US government dropped firefox support for their gibs programs like unemployment lmao.
Its ogre for firefox.
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ungoogled chromium
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!coomers
There's a series of videos featuring a girl in skirt humping the back of a chair, Google's current shittery has made it impossible to find this video again
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Try using yandex
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Just as bad
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I use brave, its okay, or yandex if I want chud results or cant find shit on brave.
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I'm not gonna stand here and listen to you badmouth the greatest corporation the world has ever seen
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at least they were just ruled to be a monopoly. hopefully they get taken down a peg soon
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link plz?
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https://rdrama.net/h/slackernews/post/289979/google-lost-an-antitrust-no-longer
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I'm a brave and Kagi shill
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Use Vivaldi sirs it's a good web browser bery customisable and does the needful
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@googleshill
Is an untaken usernames ladies and gents
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I like cooking Shorts.
Very nice way to get the "feel" for a recipe and decide if it is worth investing more time to learn how to cook it.
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Microsoft could ripped Google a new bussy by keeping Internet Explorer it's own separate search engine.
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And they use Reddit data for their gen AI'd content now, which is hilariously awful and bad info. Because I know Reddit is shit, I will never trust their results but I suppose the average person has no idea. The boomers on FB still fall for the dumb fake shit that gets posted there.
Krayon sexually assaulted his sister.
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Google does suck but they have a monopoly so wtf you gonna do
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Let it all burn
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Most of the default subs are run by bots and shills.
Social media is the Matrix. Look into the ties between big tech and DARPA. The content is curated and contextualized to create a certain response in the public mind. Look up the original definition of Cybernetics.
You are human livestock and the internet is your digital enclosure. And like all good farmers, they have to make sure the herd gets their vaccines or it could mean disaster for the farm!
It's not individuals who just love vaccines making these gay pro vax memes. Someone is being paid to do it by some shitty organization likely with ties to the Rockefellers and the Vanderbilts or whatever.
Snapshots:
:ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/software/527143-most-popular-web-browsers-in-south-africa-2.html:
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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