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wiz@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

People who haven't gotten into habit of googling stuff in the last 20 years might not get into it at all anymore because of how search engines are gamed with SEO spam tactics nowadays

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People who haven't gotten into habit of googling stuff in the last 20 years might not get into it at all anymore because of how search engines are gamed with SEO spam tactics nowadays

wiz@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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    The sad thing is the Reddit Links probably contain the most useful answers that google will show you

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      I know. But I’ll use them as a last resort

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        Use them, costs bandwidth and CPU cycles.

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          Yes but it will be offset by traffic boosts for advertisers

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            Use an adblocker. Unless, you mean people go on the internet without using protection?

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              They do. Either due to technical ineptitude (like approximately everyone’s parents) or, and that might be worse, with the conviction of doing “the right thing,” like a friend of mine.

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              That won’t make a difference. Reddit knows how much traffic they get and they use that number to sell ads

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            Junk data that costs the advertisement without a return on investment

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              That’s not how it works. Reddit is able to even get interest because of traffic counts. Same for IPO values

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                If you’re blocking their ads and not logged in, you are costing them.

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