| ▲ | charcircuit a day ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Google is not the internet and this behavior is not exclusive to Google. For example TikTok does the same thing. They have search ads when you search for brands on their platform. The TikTok app never had a url bar, TikTok provides search for TikTok, and it never had an ad blocker. Same thing for Amazon, same thing for X, etc. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | teddyh a day ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
> Google is not the internet No, but they are, with ever increasing accuracy, the web. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | echelon a day ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
You don't search TikTok to buy something from BestBuy.com You use Chrome and Google, and both are interfering with that process. They're sticking themselves in the middle of that transaction and neither you nor Best Buy want them there. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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