Setting aside the merits of frantically searching for help online when in a crisis, there's a point about how ads aren't just a benign inconvenience.
I need help doing something - anything - and if I try to query it online I'm forced to wade through a layer of well-financed scams or just a blizzard of bullshit before getting what I was actually looking for.
Like, Google has the tech to recognize the most likely thing you need. But it's not tailored to deliver that. It's tailored to deliver what generates maximum revenue, functionally at your expenses.
Yeah for sure, the idea itself is solid but the specific example of looking for a video on how to do a heimlich maneuver while grandma's turning blue in the face is kinda ridiculous to me
Setting aside the merits of frantically searching for help online when in a crisis, there's a point about how ads aren't just a benign inconvenience.
I need help doing something - anything - and if I try to query it online I'm forced to wade through a layer of well-financed scams or just a blizzard of bullshit before getting what I was actually looking for.
Like, Google has the tech to recognize the most likely thing you need. But it's not tailored to deliver that. It's tailored to deliver what generates maximum revenue, functionally at your expenses.
Yeah for sure, the idea itself is solid but the specific example of looking for a video on how to do a heimlich maneuver while grandma's turning blue in the face is kinda ridiculous to me
It's ridiculous until you're in the crisis and you need the information asap
Then you Google it, which does in fact immediately bring up a quick explanation of how to do it and some diagrams