Not because the suggestions are amazingly good - sometimes they're ok - but because when they lead to some crap-infested site I can click to not see that site any more. That ability to cull keeps the suggestions workable for me.
I genuinely think the Google would benefit hugely by making this a possibility with their search engine. With the coming flood of chatgpt-generated shit sites, they have so much to gain by enabling human curation, even if page impressions take a hit.
Ffs Google, provide your users with a way to blacklist the more abominable parts of the internet and you'll engender serious customer loyalty and stickiness.
Don't you have better use for your time? Normalizing the disaster that has become the internet (and absolving the key actors in that development) is robbing us all from experiencing a more sane online life.
These lists will of course be at risk of the same pressures as ad blockers, with incentives for list maintainers to accept bribes to remove entries.
But over time, the quality of the lists will improve and so too will the quality of the UX for users of the aforementioned extensions. That is, assuming the goose isn't cooked already.
https://searchengineland.com/googles-personal-blocklist-dele...
This has been the best way to watch YouTube on Android. The video keeps playing in the background too and no ads of course.
I use Firefox + uBlock Origin + Sponsorblock and a few others. Ads are still everywhere. Not as everywhere as they'd be without it, but it's not like adblocks get rid of them all together.
> Sponsored segments on YouTube
I only watch music videos and very rarely a how to repair video.
> Billboards
I guess I sometimes see those in US TV shows ;)
> newspapers
I think I remember those things ;)
> is hiring
I guess, never saw those as ads. Though now that I think about it, I have started to want to figure out what BuildZoom does with custom homes, why YC funded them, and why I should care. Maybe one day I’ll see enough hiring posts to google them ;)
YC companies pay money to put a message in front of us, in the hope that some of us will respond by taking an action that is highly profitable for them. Seems pretty clearly ads to me!
>I guess I sometimes see those in US TV shows ;)
Lucky. In Helsinki they're in every metro station, every bus stop, and sometimes just in random spots along busy streets. Oh, and every metro car has screens playing video ads.
Frankly, these are minor annoyances. The people who get emotionally overwhelmed by them perhaps should resolve that internally rather than externally. Life is never going to be free from minor annoyances.
> The people who get emotionally overwhelmed by them perhaps should resolve that internally rather than externally.
What you're insinuating here is quite frankly insulting, brings nothing of value to what I was trying to say and the only thing I can offer you in return is to tell you to go fuck yourself.
I do buy things, but each purchase is carefully considered.
Happier, wealthier, all good