[Gamers Nexus] "Google is Getting Worse," ft. Wendell of Level1 Techs

You either die a hero or live and watch yourself turn into a villian.

Tom's hardware, woot, and most recently donut media just to name a few. All were once the place to go, they all were bought out by bigger interest and eventually became the villian.

Donut - how? All the giga-sponsors they take lately?
- They've been bought by an entertainment parent company, which is why the glut of sponsorships along with their content leaning towards pure entertainment instead of including educational and DIY content. Zach and Jeremiah started their own thing recently and explain in their first video.

Is GN going to put Google on a Performance Improvement Plan like they did with Asus?

Google is getting worse everyday and yet we still depends on it everyday

I'm slowly moving away to open source, self-hosted applications where possible. Changed search to a combination of Gibiru and Yep. Email to a mailcow server I host on a vps, and I'm moving photos to an Immich server I'm setting up. Home Automation is next, I have a Raspberry Pi 5 to act as the Home Assistant server. And a few other projects in the works to split from Google as much as I can and mostly it is all better.

Who thinks google will still be a traded company in 10 years?

Yahoo is still around in some form or another.

Alphabet has enough money to persist well after they lose relevance.
Too big to fail? Search is only one revenue stream.
- Similar tactic among all the large tech corpos, switch focus to IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, become the backbone of the modern computing landscape.
  
  It's basically a slow switch to becoming critical international infrastructure like power grids, water ways, and gas/oil pipelines.
  
  This all while locking you in as much as possible and milking as much value as they can squeeze.
- That'd be advertising, and by a mile.
I mean IBM is still traded but it's a shadow if it's former self
ICQ shut down yesterday and it was relatively small to begin with so I‘m afraid Google will be around for decades to come and possibly outlive most or even all of us.

Hell yeah, more Wendell.

"Google is getting worse. Now watch me talk about the situation on a youtube video. Youtube is a property owned by google. "

Where's that iPhone comic about society
- This one?
You know who is most fed up with YouTube's policies? Content creators on YouTube. They're locked in, they know it, and they hate it.
Will we do have Youtube alternatives (Odysee & Rumble). But people can't filter out the stuff, they don't like on Odysee & Rumble. They can do that on Youtube but not on Youtube alternatives. So yeah.
- Just took a look at them, and Rumble is for sure a hard pass. The 2 rows under "news" is all far-right extremist videos, which is great if you are aiming for the Parlor/Truth Social/Nazi and Nazi sympathizers of the internet, but I think you'll miss most of the world going that toxic on the frontage.
And exactly where do you propose they talk about it and actually have people see it?
You the stones to destroy the stones.
You're so edgy! I'm jelly...