The grand old enshittification curve strikes again. Remember, as stated by Cory Doctorow, the process of enshittification entails these steps: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse t…
Not this one. Collecting data and serving ads is their core business. They cancel and change products that enable the core, but never the gist of their business.
Luckily it’s Google. They’ll release it, half arse it for two years then cancel it without warning.
Hopefully…
Ha. Never a truer summary of Google’s competence in anything other than spamming adverts at you.
But this serves that core competence of spamming adverts at you
I’d say that depends on how profitable it is - services like AdSense and gmail are still going strong some 20 years after being introduced!
Not this one. Collecting data and serving ads is their core business. They cancel and change products that enable the core, but never the gist of their business.
Will have to see…