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[–] Monument@piefed.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

If it is impossible to quickly find useful information online, we spend more time looking for information.

Many Fediverse users will have adblockers up, but the rest of the population? More time scrolling past advertisements put out by the web’s largest advertising firm and search engine.

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 2 points 1 week ago

It will still give you ads. I don’t even need to use it to know that. Even if it didn’t, controlling the flow will manipulate millions.

You think misinformation is bad now, this is a hard pivot into worse.