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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet

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How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Testimony during Google’s antitrust case revealed that the company may be altering billions of queries a day to generate results that will get you to buy more stuff.

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Firefox isn’t a search engine, though?
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  Good point
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    What search engine were you using on FF?
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      Google but with ublock and ghostery

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