This is from the Blood in the Machine Podcast. How and why to de-Google your life by Brian Merchant
“Google is the patron saint of enshittification. Sure, the tech giant faces some stiff competition from the likes of Facebook and Microsoft, but when it comes to creating a product that became so widely indispensable, so ingrained into modern life that it’s permanently rendered as a verb, and then systematically degrading said product for the sole benefit of shareholders, Google stands alone.”
“These days, this tendency is best exemplified by two of current-day Google’s defining traits: Its use of monopoly power to crush competitors that otherwise might offer a superior service and its headlong rush to replace core services with inferior AI products that promise to keep users on Google’s platform longer. Just this week, a court in Sweden ruled that the search giant owed $1.5 billion in damages for systematically favoring its own shopping service over PriceRunner, a Swedish eCommerce site.”
Plus, a data center rebellion erupts in Canada, Gen Z says it’s sexy to be a Luddite, and the push to paint anti-tech activists as extremists. This is Episode 2 of the BITM show with guest Paris Marx.
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