Microsoft Google has arrived
@vkc the idea of "personalised search" is so repulsive. if I search "quintinshill disaster" I expect all the results about the Quintinshill disaster. I don't require certain results to be filtered out or prioritised/deprioritised based on what some corporation imagines my preferences are
I rarely use Google Search- I mainly just look things up on JSTOR, manpages, Reddit, Fedi, or asking folks. DDG provides search when those fall through, and Google's pretty much something I only use to see what Google suggests when I'm working on a topic.
So, like, personalization is actually a *bad* thing for my particular case. I can't imagine I'm alone in that.
@vkc “continue” / “ask me in 3 days”. How about instead you go away and stop hassling me you infernal machine.
any app/site that has "ask me later" rather than "no" should have to send to all their developers a notification message from every user everywhere every time this is asked.
@vkc every one of those dialogs needs to land the suit in charge in a consent workshop limbo where they are not able to do anything other then this workshop limbo until they UNDERSTAND.
@vkc also I assume “continue” is an evasively labelled “enable personalised search for me” button.
On a related note, I wrote a blog post some time ago about how I quit using search engines for three months.
@vkc What an amazing experiment, I will try to consider the best source before just searching now.