Google is excelling again - as the whole “uncensored” Big-Tech IT now.
The short summary is that for nearly a year, Google was hiding Proton Mail from search results for queries such as ‘secure email’ and ‘encrypted email’. This was highly suspicious because Proton Mail has long been the world’s largest encrypted email provider.
Recently I used Google maps to search for the nearest DHL near me so I could return a package. DHL is not that popular near me and when I specifically typed for DHL, I would get only their competitors in the search results.
There was a DHL service center near me and I had to scroll a bunch to find it. Oh, and apparently big box stores (or anyone) can pay Google to come up in the search on maps, even if unrelated.
I don’t think they have skin the in shipping game but their algorithms are over optimized that they don’t even show what your searching for, but trying to infer why you’re searching for it. That or whoever pays them more. Certainly a search risk
Google has become an awful company. I’m in the process of degoogling but it’s not easy given all the monopolies they have created
There is nice tutorial here - simple steps how to get rid of the Google on Android Phone: https://www.jumagazin.cz/How-to-protect-your-self-on-Internet-part-II_468.html
Last update on July 10, 2023 Published on October 26, 2016
That’s such a misleading thing to post! Thanks for adding this for lazy ppl like me
I believe the reason it was posted is because Proton recently linked to the article again on Twitter, claiming that Proton Pass is appearing too far down in Google’s search results relative to its popularity. This is when searching for “password manager” (Google’s own password manager is the first result).
It’s still misleading
In what sense? The Google and other companies are censoring extensively. Maybe it started already in 2016 but now there is tons of evidence and it’s properly documented. So the discussion is appropriate.
It’s an 8 year old article and you didn’t spark any discussion or context such as this, so it comes off as extremely misleading regardless of what you intended I won’t be replying further man I think I’ve made myself pretty clear
That’s the correct attitude! We need more people like this to enrich discussion and show others how it’s done.
For sure, I’m not suggesting otherwise. Just giving some additional context as to why it may have been posted again.
@pooky55@lemm.ee - best practice is adding [2016] to end of headline
Lemmy’ll let ya edit it now still!
